A couple problems

[Michael Whapples]

> Hello,
> You can solve the issue by creating a link to libportaudio.so and give the 
> link the name libportaudio.so.0. It is to do with what the file was called 
> on the machine which compiled espeak.
>
> Alternatively if you have installed portaudio from source, then you should 
> have all the headers and other required files to compile espeak yourself, 
> then you will not need to make that link.
>
> The other thing is if you are not going to use espeak for anything other 
> than speech-dispatcher, then follow the install instructions for compiling 
> without portaudio, and then you don't need portaudio.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "guy schlosser" <guyster at buckeye-express.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:38 PM
> Subject: Re: A couple problems
>
>
>> Hey there Willem, thanks for the response.  Before I tried to compile 
>> Espeak, I did try to run the binary version.  I got an error message that 
>> said "unable to open shared library libportaudio.so.0."  I have both 
>> places where shared libraries are stored in my system listed in 
>> ld.so.conf.  I then did a yum install portaudio* and a package named 
>> something like portaudio-18.18.fc6.rpm was installed.  libportaudio.so 
>> was found when I did "whereis libportaudio*", but no .so.0.  I'm 
>> thoroughly confused.  Today, I compiled portaudio from source, and still 
>> don't see libportaudio.so.0.  Help!!!  Again, thanks in advance for all 
>> the help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Guy
>>
>> At 01:17 AM 10/31/2006, you wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>Why do you not just install the binary version of espeak?
>>>It should sort out the first compile problem.
>>>I start speach-dispatcher -d
>>>I think you can try that.
>>>Ssh into the box, not telnet, telnet is most likely not running.
>>>You could try to press alt-f2 to get another terminal and try to log in
>>>blindly.
>>>HTH, Willem
>>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Guy Schlosser wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hello all:
>>> >
>>> > I've got a couple problems and need a little assistance figuring out
>>> > what's going on.  First, I got my Fedora core 6 installed without
>>> > problems.  I installed speech-dispatcher from the tar balls at
>>> > www.freebsoft.org, and all seems to have went OK there.  Here's where
>>> > I'm having trouble.  1., when I try to compile Espeak after doing yum
>>> > install portaudio, I get make errors that say "no definition for
>>> > thread join and thread cancel."  Lastly, I put the following lines in
>>> > my rc.local file to get speech-dispatcher running, and at least
>>> > festival for now.
>>> > festival --server
>>> > speech-dispatcher.
>>> >
>>> > Now, when I boot, I get the message from festival that says that the
>>> > server started, and then I don't get to the login prompt.  Is there
>>> > something I should have put after festival --server?  Or, is there a
>>> > better way to start festival and speech-dispatcher on
>>> > boot?  Furthermore, how can I regain access to my box?  Do I have to
>>> > telnet in from another machine?  Any help would be greatly 
>>> > appreciated.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Guy
>>> >
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