Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I tried setting up emacspeak and emacspeak needs two variables exported to > the user's .profile file in order to work. The EMACSPEAK_DIR variable > needs to point at the location of emacspeak and DTK_PROGRAM needs to point > at the speech server you intend to use. The export commands did not > create a .profile file for me nor did they update a .profile file for me > with their contents in it. Aren't you supposed to edit ~/.profile by hand? > Using echo to create and populate the .profile also has no good > effect. How come? > I'm about to use git to pull the current version of emacspeak > down onto this system and try with that but I downloaded and > built eflite and emacspeak that's on this machine from the aur > repository. Fortunately, I can test emacspeak on debian > without much difficulty and may need to check out where debian > stores those export variables since the debian version I have > made work in the past. A package can add something to the system profile directory, IIRC /etc/profile on arch sources everything in /etc/profile.d, so you can source /etc/profile if some environment is provided by the package as system-wide. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591
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