Re: denyhosts quandry

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:56:07PM -0500, farhan wrote:
> Hello, I am running ubuntu 8.10, and I tried to compile portaudio 19, I  
> had to fight with it to get it to compile, or at least espeak to compile  
> using portaudio 19.

Ubuntu is a debian-based distribution, so it should have the same
packages as debian available. So, I'm curious why you had to compile
portaudio 19 and espeak, when both are available in debian as
packages, and therefore I'd assume should also be available in ubuntu?

> all this crap about linking espeak to the right portaudio, why can't  
> espeak just compile and work,

Because, as I understand, espeak needs portaudio to be a
cross-platform tts engine. Removing portaudio would mean writing code
to use the audio hardware separately for gnu/linux, windows, and
anything else on which espeak runs and talks on through the sound system.

Greg


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