speechd-up errors revisited

[Sean McMahon]

I'd like to point out that if you have automake 1.7 and automake 1.9 on Debian
Sarge, automake --version will show 1.7.  You have to pick a version of automake
and go with it or find some other way to get around the problem.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hynek Hanke,,," <hanke at volny.cz>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: speechd-up errors revisited


> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 07:59:46AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > I am working in a Debian Sarge environment and am trying to build
> > speechd-up, but cannot get rid of this compile error. I have the static
> > flite libraries installed, and my automake is 1.9, but the "PIDPATH" is
> > shooting me down. Here is the error:
>
> PIDPATH is a preprocessor constant that should be passed to gcc by the
Makefile
> via the -D option. It's correctly stated in Makefile.am, however from the log
> of make all you sent, it's clear that the -D option isn't there.
>
> It seems you are using some old/broken version of automake or autoconf.
Please
> type automake -v and see if it's at least 1.7. If not, you want to install
some
> later version and make sure automake runs this one (/etc/alternatives/
contains
> symbolic links).
>
> But there is an easier way. Download the distribution tarball (which should
> pretty much be the latest CVS now)
> http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/speechd-up/
> and just run
> ./configure
> make
> and as root
> make install
> Don't run build.sh, this is only necessary when building from CVS.
>
> This distribution tarball is not visible from the web yet, but soon will be.
> I hope it makes the instalation little easier. Will let you know...
>
> With regards,
> Hynek Hanke
>
>
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