A better answer ... Travis wrote: > Why would you need any libs (regardless of gcc version) if it was a > statically linked binary? Well, here's what I wrote about getting it working on slackware 9.1 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/emacspeak/list.archive.2004/msg00128.html Apparently it's not actually a statically linked binary because I had to use glibc 2.3.1 and invoke viavoice using ld-2.3.1.so. We take a lot for granted with distros, it's generally easy to build kernels but the toolchain can be a bear. Note that the enu50.so (the speech engine library) not only required an old glibc, it had to be invoked using old loader. When I did this I had two glibc versions and two loader versions on my system. I don't know if there is a better way, but this approach worked on slackware and lfs. I have no idea if that is still true today, apparently I did it three years ago. Also from my notes, on slackware I used rpm2tgz to unpack viavoice. Now I remember, the rpm tool choked because of dependencies. I will not reveal how many hours I messed with getting viavoice working on newer systems. An insane amount I think. -- Doug
