Doug Sutherland writes: > Luke said: > While making a tarball would be easy, the person using it would have to > be sure they had the libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 shared library, which is > from gcc 2.95. Luckily, Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora still carry this, but I > doubt very much whether other distros do, and it would certainly not be > trivial to build it. > > Doug adds: > It's not trivial but it is doable. I have in fact done exactly that with the > ibm tts in the past, both on LFS and slackware. It does take some > considerable work, because we're talking raw guts of toolchain here. And we would get hit up for tech support on it--about a distro we don't use. Please note we've never said there wouldn't be $DISTRO packages in the future. All things are possible, certainly. Our value add has been the attempt to make the wiring easy and straight forward, so one can do something like: yum --nogpgcheck install ttsynthcore-1.0.rpm Janina
