I think the package is no longer on the beginner-to-linux-install-track
given variances with documentation and what I ended up having to do to
the Makefile to get it to run at all. I built from emacspeak.git too.
On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, The Wolf wrote:
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:30:56
From: The Wolf <hank.smith966@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: emacspeak finally running
sounds like more trouble then it is worth
how is a beginner to linux supposed to understand all of this tech jargon.
not trying to upset any one but am curious.
On 3/2/2017 2:25 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
What a mess!
I had to do a whole lot of things way outside documentation to get this
application running.
First, since outloud kept on insisting on compiling I did major surgery on
the emacspeak/servers directory and erased anything that wasn't
linux-espeak. I think emacspeak was getting confused in that directory.
After make config and make emacspeak and copying the directory and all
subdirectories that had emacspeak-setup.el to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
and adding an (add-list "load-path statement above emacspeak-setup.el line
as suggested in the info page, I had to start emacs which complained it
couldn't find emacspeak-setup.el after being loaded and then I did a
load-library <ret> emacspeak-setup.el <ret> and heard emacspeak finally do
something close to its normal startup including the organ music.
Now I'm going to have to investigate to find out why the
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/lisp/lisp/ path wasn't liked by emacs.
I think the Make file in the emacspeak directory inadvertently had its exit
statements stripped out if exit is even a valid Makefile command because
the stanza just below emacspeak: was you guessed it outloud:. My reading
of Makefile code isn't all that professional but all I found was a blank
line between the end of the emacspeak stanza and the outloud: stanza and
unless that's a valid form of exit it's entirely understandable why outloud
kept building even though viavoice wasn't on the machine at the time. Let's
not even talk about searching for existing server software before building
anything, that will add too much complexity to the Makefile most likely.
Now I'm going to go study Makefile syntax and see if I can learn enough to
figure out some valid fixes for this one.
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