speechd-up errors revisited

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

When you have more than one version of a program, or even several
programs that provide the same function, you use the alternatives system
do set the default.

man update-alternatives

Hope this helps.
          Kenny

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:40:03PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> 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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