From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from opera.rednote.net ([74.53.93.34]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I10XM-0001Oq-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:47:56 -0400 Received: from opera.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5KDltsB008834 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:47:55 GMT Received: (from janina@localhost) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l5KDltJ9008833 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:47:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:47:55 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: TTSynth Is Available Again Message-ID: <20070620134755.GJ7826@rednote.net> References: <20070619211310.GA9480@themuso.com> <003101c7b2e8$e7e52760$ab00a8c0@tenstac> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003101c7b2e8$e7e52760$ab00a8c0@tenstac> X-Operating-System: Linux opera.rednote.net 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7spk Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) 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: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:47:56 -0000 Doug Sutherland writes: > Luke said: > While making a tarball would be easy, the person using it would have to > be sure they had the libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 shared library, which is > from gcc 2.95. Luckily, Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora still carry this, but I > doubt very much whether other distros do, and it would certainly not be > trivial to build it. > > Doug adds: > It's not trivial but it is doable. I have in fact done exactly that with the > ibm tts in the past, both on LFS and slackware. It does take some > considerable work, because we're talking raw guts of toolchain here. And we would get hit up for tech support on it--about a distro we don't use. Please note we've never said there wouldn't be $DISTRO packages in the future. All things are possible, certainly. Our value add has been the attempt to make the wiring easy and straight forward, so one can do something like: yum --nogpgcheck install ttsynthcore-1.0.rpm Janina