From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com ([204.127.198.39]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16yeqG-00042y-00 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:18:49 -0400 Received: from h00e02947db5d.ne.client2.attbi.com ([24.62.33.141]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020419201820.RTVP12144.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@h00e02947db5d.ne.client2.attbi.com> for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:18:20 +0000 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:18:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Gueths X-X-Sender: igueths@igueths To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: thanks for all the help with speak freely, but still having problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 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: Hi Jim. I figured out what the problem was. By the way, thanks for telling me about the file command! I guess you learn something every day. I realized that sfvod is actually a perl script according to file, so I just changed the permissions. I also didn't realize that the rest of the binaries were installed. On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > Hi Igor, > Somewhere within the make file they are issuing the strip command that > strips out debugging information from executables. This makes the file > considerably shorter, sometimes dramatically so. For some reason your > strip command is not recognizing the format of the executable file: > sfvod. Hopefully, somebody else can tell you why. Try 'file > /usr/local/bin/sfvod' without the apostrophes of course. If you get > something like: > elf32 binary executable > you should be okay. > > Jim Wantz > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > Hi all. I successfully compiled the binaries it seems, however, during > > make install, I get the following strange error: > > > > Strip: /usr/local/bin/sfvod: file format not recognized. > > /usr/bin/install: strip failed. > > Make: install error 1. I'll check the install makefile and see if I can > > find something that I can possibly relate to this error. But does anyone > > have any ideas in case I might be going at this error the wrong way? > > Thanks for all the help so far! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >