From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from shawmail.shawcable.com ([64.59.128.220] helo=bpd2mo1no.prod.shawcable.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 195erx-0003p6-00 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:50:01 -0400 Received: from bpd2mi2no.prod.shawcable.com (bpd2mi2no-qfe3.prod.shawcable.com [10.0.184.121]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HDF00GXC6QFAG@l-daemon> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:49:27 -0600 (MDT) Received: from nomad.shawcable.com ([24.70.172.254]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HDF00EPU6QELD@l-daemon> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:49:27 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 23:50:11 +0200 From: Doug Sutherland Subject: Re: using speakup with festival or flite In-reply-to: X-Sender: wearable@mail.shawcable.com To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030415234703.0291be90@mail.shawcable.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030415115557.00a8e628@mail.shawcable.com> <000001c3036f$36d99c30$6401a8c0@us.oracle.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20030415125821.00a8cc38@mail.shawcable.com> Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Lorenzo wrote: > I have a friend who also couldn't get it to compile > on a pIII 850MHZ. Both machines were running slack8.1. > Neither one of us could get eflite to compile either. Okay ... well then ... I was already losing my hair, but at least this confirms that I'm not losing my mind yet. I have tried that flite compile on several versions of gcc on slack, it never works :( > We had to use the Debian packages for both programs > and use Alien to convert them to Slack packages to > install them. Now that's annoying ... having to grab a binary from another distribution. I like compiling from source for all apps outside of slackware itself. Is there a util to convert the .deb to .tgz or .tar? -- Doug