We used a package called Alien, which we COULD compile from source. I don't have the website, but it is the first page that comes up when you go to www.google.com and type "alien package converter" in the search box. This did a perfect conversion to Slackware tgz format. And I agree with you. I like compiling from source rather than using binaries. For one thing, you always get the latest version, whereas the distro's binaries are usually behind. For another, you get to see the source code! WOW! Hope this helps. Lorenzo E Pluribus Unix Doug Sutherland staggered into view and mumbled: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
