speechd-up errors revisited

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Kenny,

That's exactly my problem. My efforts to build my older speechd-up 
package continued to use automake 1.4 even after I had retrieved the 
1.9 package with apt-get install. Thanks for the tip on the alternatives 
system.

Chuck


On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 07:47:17PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> 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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