On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 09:15:07PM +0100, Didier Spaier wrote: > On 28/12/2021 20:50, Janina Sajka wrote: > > Didier Spaier writes: > >> Hi Janina and all, > >> > >> On 28/12/2021 17:26, Janina Sajka wrote: > >>> ... > >>> > >>> Apparently there must be some kind of reason why Espeakup can't be > >>> agnostic between espeak and espeak-ng? > >> > >> espeakup is linked against the shared library installed at time of building it. > >> > >> Here: > >> dance[~]$ ldd /usr/bin/espeakup | grep libespeak > >> libespeak-ng.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libespeak-ng.so.1 (0x00007f290df83000) > >> > > Thanks, Didier. This does make sense. > > > >> My guess is you will find libespeak.so.1 instead running the same command. > >> > >> So you need to rebuild espeakup-0.90 after having removed espeak and installed > >> espeak-ng only. > >> > > Are you saying I need to run ldd by hand? I thought the installation > > process upgrading from 80 to 90 would take care of the ldd? > > ldd just gives an information about the dependencies. As its man page says: > > ldd prints the shared objects (shared libraries) required by each program or > shared object specified on the command line. > > During the installation process maybe the program in Arch that performs the > installation checks the presence of the required dependency (probably not using > ldd but rather according to the information recorded in some file by the packager). > > If so and if my assumption is correct: > 1) When the packager built espeakup, espeak (not espeak-ng) was installed. > 2) you can check this running the above ldd command > 3) therefore espeakup can't use easpeak-ng, only easpeak. espeakup 0.90 linked with espeak-ng in arch. > > It's true I did not run an ldd when I tried to upgrade my older machine > > to espeak-ng and espeakup-0.90. > > In any case you need to rebuild espeakup-0.90 against espeak-ng. How to do that no need to do that. Janina are you using pipewire on box with not working espeakup? currently espeakup hasn't work with pw. I haven't found time to debug this yet. sorry. -- Sincerely, Alexander
