emacspeak build

Tobias Vinteus tobvin at algonet.se
Fri Feb 24 07:52:58 UTC 2017


Speaking of Outloud, is it voxin nowadays that is the way to go if you 
want something based on Outloud?


On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> I got through the make step and set DTK_PROGRAM=espeak with an export command 
> but when I do sudo -H make install the install errors out complaining it 
> can't build outloud.  Very good reason it can't build outloud, it's not on 
> this machine.  I'm doing this build on archlinux and used emacspeak-git as 
> source for the build.  One thing I found out, python-mode is required to 
> build emacspeak.  Failure to have installed generates an error.
>
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Chris Brannon wrote:

> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> writes:
>
>> but when I do sudo -H make install the install errors out
>> complaining it can't build outloud.  Very good reason it can't build
>> outloud, it's not on this machine.
>
> Hey Jude,
> This probably needs to be fixed in the emacspeak source, but here's a
> temporary workaround that will hopefully work for you.
> Try running
> touch servers/linux-outloud/atcleci.so
> from the root of the emacspeak source tree.
> make will be fooled into installing a dummy atcleci.so.  That's fine,
> since you don't have outloud on that machine.
>
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Okay, that touch command once run as directed got emacspeak installed.
> That includes the info files for emacspeak too.  This should be easier than 
> modifying a Makefile and the install step is going to be moved out of the 
> Makefile for the next version of emacspeak too.  I've used sendmail-HOWTOs 
> that were easier than this in my past and still have the old instructions for 
> them here in braille.
>
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Chris Brannon wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:44:06
>> From: Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com>
>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: emacspeak build
>> 
>> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> writes:
>> 
>>> but when I do sudo -H make install the install errors out
>>> complaining it can't build outloud.  Very good reason it can't build
>>> outloud, it's not on this machine.
>> 
>> Hey Jude,
>> This probably needs to be fixed in the emacspeak source, but here's a
>> temporary workaround that will hopefully work for you.
>> Try running
>> touch servers/linux-outloud/atcleci.so
>> from the root of the emacspeak source tree.
>> make will be fooled into installing a dummy atcleci.so.  That's fine,
>> since you don't have outloud on that machine.
>> 
>> -- Chris
>> 
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> emacspeak default server is now outloud and I think the Makefile has it 
> hard-coded in so no other servers will build with it and work.  For that 
> reason just to run emacspeak buying outloud isn't worth it since I've had and 
> have other screen readers working for years already on Linux.
>
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:21:43
>> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: emacspeak build
>> 
>> Okay, that touch command once run as directed got emacspeak installed.
>> That includes the info files for emacspeak too.  This should be easier than 
>> modifying a Makefile and the install step is going to be moved out of the 
>> Makefile for the next version of emacspeak too.  I've used sendmail-HOWTOs 
>> that were easier than this in my past and still have the old instructions 
>> for them here in braille.
>> 
>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Chris Brannon wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:44:06
>>> From: Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com>
>>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
>>> Subject: Re: emacspeak build
>>> 
>>> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> but when I do sudo -H make install the install errors out
>>>> complaining it can't build outloud.  Very good reason it can't build
>>>> outloud, it's not on this machine.
>>> 
>>> Hey Jude,
>>> This probably needs to be fixed in the emacspeak source, but here's a
>>> temporary workaround that will hopefully work for you.
>>> Try running
>>> touch servers/linux-outloud/atcleci.so
>>> from the root of the emacspeak source tree.
>>> make will be fooled into installing a dummy atcleci.so.  That's fine,
>>> since you don't have outloud on that machine.
>>> 
>>> -- Chris
>>> 
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>> 
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Chris Brannon wrote:

> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> writes:
>
>> emacspeak default server is now outloud and I think the Makefile has
>> it hard-coded in so no other servers will build with it and work.  For
>> that reason just to run emacspeak buying outloud isn't worth it since
>> I've had and have other screen readers working for years already on
>> Linux.
>
> Yeah it works fine with other servers.  Did you run "make espeak" before
> make install?  The destination directory where emacspeak is installed should
> have a file servers/linux-espeak/tclespeak.so.
> If not, perhaps try "make espeak" and then redo the make install?
>
> -- Chris
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Yes, and that had no effect. On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Chris Brannon wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:19:49
>> From: Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com>
>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: emacspeak build
>> 
>> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> writes:
>> 
>>> emacspeak default server is now outloud and I think the Makefile has
>>> it hard-coded in so no other servers will build with it and work.  For
>>> that reason just to run emacspeak buying outloud isn't worth it since
>>> I've had and have other screen readers working for years already on
>>> Linux.
>> 
>> Yeah it works fine with other servers.  Did you run "make espeak" before
>> make install?  The destination directory where emacspeak is installed 
>> should
>> have a file servers/linux-espeak/tclespeak.so.
>> If not, perhaps try "make espeak" and then redo the make install?
>> 
>> -- Chris
>> 
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