In article <BAY103-DAV101749E6F9310E810D246B8EAC0 at phx.gbl>, Michael Whapples <mikster4 at msn.com> wrote: > It seems to be something strange to slackware, don't know if it is > the way the provided packages were created. It just requires on > slackware for you to add that -lpthread to the Makefile of espeak. > May be worth noting what the error is and adding a comment about > this in the installation notes (possibly saying it seems to be the > case for slackware). I don't understand this. eSpeak doesn't use pthreads and so shouldn't need to link to it. Unless perhaps you're not using portaudio as a shared library but rather compiling it together with eSpeak ?