John, There compile stopped on cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.la' It would seem you are missing glib. As root try find / -name *libglib* -print It probably won't find glib, either that or the build doesn't have path to where it is You seem to be on debian apt-get install libglib hth, Doug John Heim wrote: > I'm having trouble compiling speechd-up. I'm following the instructions > here: > http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd-up/speechd-up_1.html > > I've gotten through steps 1-4 with no problems. I installed > speech-dispatcher via apt-get. It seems to have installed 0.6.1. And it > works. I am no on step 5compiling speechd-up. When I get to the make all > step, it fails, see the error message below. > > # wget > http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd-up/speechd-up-0.4.tar.gz > # tar -zxf speechd-up-0.4.tar.gz > # cd speechd-up-0.4/ > # ./configure > # make all > make all-am > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/speechd-up-0.4' > /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o speechd-up > speechd_up-s > peechd-up.o speechd_up-options.o -lspeechd > libtool: link: warning: library > `/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../..//lib > speechd.la' was moved. > libtool: link: warning: library > `/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../..//lib > speechd.la' was moved. > libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.la' > make[1]: *** [speechd-up] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/speechd-up-0.4' > make: *** [all] Error 2