Tip for installing espeakup

William Hubbs w.d.hubbs at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 23:10:33 EST 2009


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Hi Chuck,

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 08:41:32PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hit a snag when issuing "make install" with the latest espeakup, but
> solved it simply enough. The error message suggested that the install
> program was not found. The Makefile refers to it as: $(INSTALL), so on
> a hunch, I added this to my /etc/profile:
> 
> export INSTALL=install
> 
> After restarting my root session, the espeakup make install worked
> normally. I am on a Debian Lenny system here, not sure I've ever needed
> that environment variable before.
 
This was due to an error on my part, I thought that install was one of
the defaults that was defined in make, the same way CC or RM is defined
for example, but it is not.  This has been fixed in 0.51, so you don't
need the export statement.

Thanks for the report.

William

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