From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from beaver.sibername.com ([64.15.155.210]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I1D6V-0004Lm-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:13:03 -0400 Received: from [24.226.69.225] (helo=tenstac) by beaver.sibername.com with smtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1I1D6S-0006KY-Ai for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:13:00 -0400 Message-ID: <006701c7b3ba$a64335e0$ab00a8c0@tenstac> From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070619000959.GD7821@rednote.net><52938F2E-A4FC-4359-8A91-ABEA142454F4@softcon.com> <001a01c7b3b5$3e6dbc60$ab00a8c0@tenstac> Subject: Re: TTSynth Is Available Again Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:14:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - beaver.sibername.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - braille.uwo.ca X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - proficio.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:13:03 -0000 A better answer ... Travis wrote: > Why would you need any libs (regardless of gcc version) if it was a > statically linked binary? Well, here's what I wrote about getting it working on slackware 9.1 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/emacspeak/list.archive.2004/msg00128.html Apparently it's not actually a statically linked binary because I had to use glibc 2.3.1 and invoke viavoice using ld-2.3.1.so. We take a lot for granted with distros, it's generally easy to build kernels but the toolchain can be a bear. Note that the enu50.so (the speech engine library) not only required an old glibc, it had to be invoked using old loader. When I did this I had two glibc versions and two loader versions on my system. I don't know if there is a better way, but this approach worked on slackware and lfs. I have no idea if that is still true today, apparently I did it three years ago. Also from my notes, on slackware I used rpm2tgz to unpack viavoice. Now I remember, the rpm tool choked because of dependencies. I will not reveal how many hours I messed with getting viavoice working on newer systems. An insane amount I think. -- Doug