Kirk, > I apologize, after going back to the web page it does infact > look like you are to install from the tarball. There seems to be an error in the install instructions. The instructions say to do this (quoting exactly): The first thing to do is place a copy of the tarball in the /usr/src directory which is the directory where the linus tree is located as well. tar zxf speakup-1.00.tar.gz cd speakup-1.00 ./install Now, please try following those instructions. It will fail, because inside the install script is says this on line 14: cp -R speakup /usr/src/linux/drivers/char This command above will only work if the script is run from /usr/src, not /usr/src/speakup where the tarball actually resides. The patches will not be applied following the instructions as they are. In fact it's even worse, because the install file refers to a directory called speakup while untarring the distribution creates a directory called speakup-1.00. So the install is broken. What does work is grabbing the source from CVS, which creates the /usr/src/speakup directory, then copying the install script up one level to /usr/src, because of that line 14, it will only work from the parent dir of speakup because it copies the speakup dir! The instructions I sent (in three parts) for installing all of it with the software synth (festival, speakup, mods for software synth) seem to work for me, using cvs source, but I have to copy the install file up one level to /usr/src. Otherwise the patches will fail. This is an excerpt from those instructions ... the part that does the patches ... and seems to work ... Get the most recent speakup source code from CVS: cd /usr/src cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at linux-speakup.org:/usr/src/CVS login Password: please cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at linux-speakup.org:/usr/src/CVS checkout speakup You will see a new directory /usr/src/speakup (skipping ahead to the patching part ...) cd /usr/src/speakup cp install /usr/src cd /usr/src ./install I suggest that the docs and that install file need to be updated. It's not very normal for an install file to have to reside in the parent dir of the distribution. Nobody else does it that way and it's confusing. The install file should be set up to work from where it is: inside the source distribution. But line 14 needs to be changed to read this: cp -R /usr/src/speakup /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/ It would be nice if those modifications for software synthesizer were added to the official speakup distribution too eventually, so people don't have to look at two sets of documentations and patch the patches for the kernel. It would be even nicer if this just make it into the official kernel ... -- Doug That is interesting because I >never intended for that to be the standard way of installing. Cvs is >much newer and maintained more closely than the tarball. It is also a >much more automated way of installing speakup. > > Kirk > >-- > >Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility >e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario >phone: (519) 661-3061 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
