information on making speakup work with soft synths

[John Heim]

----- Original Message ----- > I fear however that it is a little outdated 
in details, especially
> on the speakup side. I'd appreciate if anyone could point comments
> on whether this howto needs to be changed.


I just compiled speechd-up on a new-ish debian machine. I grepped my bash 
history for things I installed while trying to compile it. Here is the list:

autoconf
automake
g++
libdotconf
libdotconf-dev
libglibmm-2.4-dev
libspeechd-dev
libspeechd2
libtool
makeinfo
speech-dispatcher
texi2html
texinfo

I kind of remember installing each of these in response to error messages I 
got during the compile. So I think most, if not all of the packages in the 
above list are necessary. I think the docs say that texinfo and texi2html 
aren't required but I think they are. Speech-dispatcher might not be 
required. I haven't tried it without installing that first.

I know this is a difficult issue for you as a documentation writer & source 
code maintainer. The problem is that if any of these packages is missing, 
you get very cryptic error messages. In some cases, I had to do some serious 
detective work to figure out what I had to install to get the compile to 
keep going.

Of course, even the above list probably isn't exhaustive. My system probably 
had a bunch of packages installed that would have caused problems had they 
been missing.


So good luck with the docs.