Re: Emacspeak on Ubuntu 8.10: best way to go about it?

[William Hubbs <williamh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:33:01PM +0000, Alastair Irving wrote:
> Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Alastair Irving writes:
> >> Janina Sajka wrote:
> >>> Tim Cross writes:
> >>>> Once I've built the atcleci.so shared library, I cd to the servers
> >>>> directory and run the 'outloud' script. If the shared library has been
> >>>> build correctly and everything is correctly installed (including the
> >>>> right versions of tcl and extended tcl, then a voice should announce
> >>>> that 'this is viavoice using ALSA'. Note that I'm still using tcl/tclx
> >>>> 8.3. 
> >>>>
> >>> Is it correct that emacspeak software speech won't build over tcl/tclx
> >>> 8.4.x?
> >>>
> >>> This seems to be what's preventing functionality on Fedora today.
> >>> Reverting to 8.3 doesn't appear to be a viable option. Fedora hasn't
> >>> used 8.3 in over three years, and that was a very different Fedora back
> >>> then.
> >>>
> >>> Am I wrong? Is anyone running emacspeak with software speech and 8.4.x
> >>> versions of tcl/tclx?
> >> the emacspeak ebuild on gentoo includes patches to make the servers
> >> compile with 8.4.
> >>
> > Cool. Can you please a pointer where to find these? I'm not familiar
> > with gentoo repositories. Thanks.
> > 
> 
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-accessibility/emacspeak/files/?hideattic=0
> 
> 
> The most recent patche is for emacspeak 28 but they can probably be
> easily adapted.

If you want to download the patches from the command line, you can issue
this command:

wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/emacspeak-29.0-patches.tar.bz2

Thanks,

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William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@xxxxxxxxxxx
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