Fw: information on making speakup work with soft synths

[John G. Heim]

Correction:

The list of packages I give below is incorrect. 2 of the packages don't 
exist. The correct list is as follows.

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




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: information on making speakup work with soft synths


>
> ----- 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 I fear however that it is a little outdated 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.
>