here's how to compile espeak on slackware

[Jonathan Duddington]

In article <BAY103-DAV101749E6F9310E810D246B8EAC0 at phx.gbl>,
   Michael Whapples <mikster4 at msn.com> wrote:
> It seems to be something strange to slackware, don't know if it is
> the way the provided packages were created. It just requires on
> slackware for you to add that -lpthread to the Makefile of espeak.
> May be worth noting what the error is and adding a comment about
> this in the installation notes (possibly saying it seems to be the
> case for slackware).

I don't understand this.  eSpeak doesn't use pthreads and so shouldn't
need to link to it.

Unless perhaps you're not using portaudio as a shared library but
rather compiling it together with eSpeak ?