Correction: The list of packages I give below is incorrect. 2 of the packages don't exist. The correct list is as follows. autoconf automake g++ libdotconf-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libspeechd-dev libspeechd2 libtool speech-dispatcher texi2html texinfo ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:02 AM Subject: Re: information on making speakup work with soft synths > > ----- Original Message ----- > I fear however that it is a little outdated > in details, especially >> on the speakup side. I'd appreciate if anyone could point comments >> on whether this howto needs to be changed. > > > I just compiled speechd-up on a new-ish debian machine. I grepped my bash > history for things I installed while trying to compile it. Here is the > list: > > autoconf > automake > g++ > libdotconf > libdotconf-dev > libglibmm-2.4-dev > libspeechd-dev > libspeechd2 > libtool > makeinfo > speech-dispatcher > texi2html > texinfo > > I kind of remember installing each of these in response to error messages > I got during the compile. So I think most, if not all of the packages in > the above list are necessary. I think the docs say that texinfo and > texi2html aren't required but I think they are. Speech-dispatcher might > not be required. I haven't tried it without installing that first. > > I know this is a difficult issue for you as a documentation writer & > source code maintainer. The problem is that if any of these packages is > missing, you get very cryptic error messages. In some cases, I had to do > some serious detective work to figure out what I had to install to get the > compile to keep going. > > Of course, even the above list probably isn't exhaustive. My system > probably had a bunch of packages installed that would have caused problems > had they been missing. > > > So good luck with the docs. >
