Hello Hynek, That did it. Many thanks. It's good to see a newer speechd-up than the one I have been using. Chuck On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:37:57PM +0200, Hynek Hanke,,, wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 07:59:46AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > I am working in a Debian Sarge environment and am trying to build > > speechd-up, but cannot get rid of this compile error. I have the static > > flite libraries installed, and my automake is 1.9, but the "PIDPATH" is > > shooting me down. Here is the error: > > PIDPATH is a preprocessor constant that should be passed to gcc by the Makefile > via the -D option. It's correctly stated in Makefile.am, however from the log > of make all you sent, it's clear that the -D option isn't there. > > It seems you are using some old/broken version of automake or autoconf. Please > type automake -v and see if it's at least 1.7. If not, you want to install some > later version and make sure automake runs this one (/etc/alternatives/ contains > symbolic links). > > But there is an easier way. Download the distribution tarball (which should > pretty much be the latest CVS now) > http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd-up/ > and just run > ./configure > make > and as root > make install > Don't run build.sh, this is only necessary when building from CVS. > > This distribution tarball is not visible from the web yet, but soon will be. > I hope it makes the instalation little easier. Will let you know... > > With regards, > Hynek Hanke > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (5% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
