From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from adsum.doit.wisc.edu (adsum.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.210]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D8C10BB8 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:13:14 -0400 (EDT) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=response Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-5.02 (built Oct 12 2007; 32bit)) id <0K4700G02UPXKL00@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:13:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mcgee (h66-222-31-17.mdsnwi.broadband.dynamic.tds.net [66.222.31.17]) by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-5.02 (built Oct 12 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K4700E6CUPWSK10@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:13:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:15:05 -0500 From: "John G. Heim" Subject: Fw: information on making speakup work with soft synths To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-id: <007501c8e90a$95e8b5e0$5501a8c0@mcgee> Organization: University of Wisconsin X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=66.222.31.17 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-10, Version=5.4.1.325704, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2008.7.18.185501, SenderIP=66.222.31.17 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:13:14 -0000 Correction: The list of packages I give below is incorrect. 2 of the packages don't exist. The correct list is as follows. autoconf automake g++ libdotconf-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libspeechd-dev libspeechd2 libtool speech-dispatcher texi2html texinfo ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heim" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:02 AM Subject: Re: information on making speakup work with soft synths > > ----- Original Message ----- > I fear however that it is a little outdated > in details, especially >> on the speakup side. I'd appreciate if anyone could point comments >> on whether this howto needs to be changed. > > > I just compiled speechd-up on a new-ish debian machine. I grepped my bash > history for things I installed while trying to compile it. Here is the > list: > > autoconf > automake > g++ > libdotconf > libdotconf-dev > libglibmm-2.4-dev > libspeechd-dev > libspeechd2 > libtool > makeinfo > speech-dispatcher > texi2html > texinfo > > I kind of remember installing each of these in response to error messages > I got during the compile. So I think most, if not all of the packages in > the above list are necessary. I think the docs say that texinfo and > texi2html aren't required but I think they are. Speech-dispatcher might > not be required. I haven't tried it without installing that first. > > I know this is a difficult issue for you as a documentation writer & > source code maintainer. The problem is that if any of these packages is > missing, you get very cryptic error messages. In some cases, I had to do > some serious detective work to figure out what I had to install to get the > compile to keep going. > > Of course, even the above list probably isn't exhaustive. My system > probably had a bunch of packages installed that would have caused problems > had they been missing. > > > So good luck with the docs. >