Compiling Under Debian

[Tony Baechler]

I know this isn't the "recommended" solution, but I just do:

aptitude -q install build-essential

That pulls in necessary dependencies. That's also necessary if you wish 
to compile your own Speakup modules, which it sounds like you might want 
to do since you keep running into bugs. I was using the standard 3.0.3 
20080724 which comes with Lenny and ran into problems adjusting 
parameters, so I compiled my own from source with much better results. 
If you're going to compile any kernel modules, you should also install 
the module-assistant package.

Steve Holmes wrote:
> I've got a testing version of Lenny here but can't find the C standard
> headers.  I've installed every imaginable package pertaining to gcc
>