Re: emacspeak espeak make problem

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, I tried 8.5 and no it doesn't work.  The shared library compiles but 
afterwards emacspeak doesn't come up speaking, hangs nicely though.On Mon, 
9 May 2011, Tim Cross wrote:

> 
> I'm not aware of any problems/incompatibilities with tcl8.5, but I do seem to
> remember seeing a post to the list a while back regarding someone looking into
> this, but don't remember seeing any issues raised. 
> 
> Note that you will need to modify the linux-espeak Makefile and change the line
> which sets the tcl version from 8.4 to 8.5. This should at least allow you to
> build the shared library. Whether it works or has some incompatibility issues,
> I don't know. However, probably easier to try 8.5 first before downgrading your
> system to 8.4
> 
> In general, you don't tend to see major incompatibilities with minor version
> upgrades i.e. 8.4 to 8.5. We did experience some problems with the 8.3 to 8.4
> switch because tclx8.5 removed the inclusion of the 'tcl' shell. This required
> some changes, which Raman added, to how the tclx library is loaded and to allow
> the scripts to use the tclsh shell that is included with the standard tcl
> package. Therefore, I think there is a very good chance tcl8.5 w2ill work fine.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
>  Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
> >This version of slackware had by vendor's choice moved to tcl 8.5.  If 
> >that'll not work I think I can find those libraries and install them on 
> >the system. On Sun, 8 May 2011, Alastair Irving wrote:
> >
> >> On 08/05/2011 19:57, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >> > This is for version 33.0 of emacspeak and I don't know what to do for it.
> >> > I have portaudio19 and espeak working to the point I can pass espeak a
> >> > string inside or outside quotes and it speaks that string.
> >> > Script started on Sun 08 May 2011 01:18:24 PM EDT
> >> > root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/linux-espeak# make all
> >> > g++ -g    -O2 -fPIC  -DPIC  -pedantic -ansi -Wall -Wno-long-long
> >> > -I/usr/include/tcl8.4   -c -o tclespeak.o tclespeak.cpp
> >> > g++ -shared -o tclespeak.so tclespeak.o -ltcl8.4 -lespeak
> >> > /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.3.3/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld:
> >> > cannot find -ltcl8.4
> >> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >> > make: *** [tclespeak.so] Error 1
> >> > root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/servers/linux-espeak# exit
> >> > exit
> >> >
> >> > Script done on Sun 08 May 2011 01:19:00 PM EDT
> >> > cut here.
> >> >
> >> 
> >> It can't find your TCL library file.  Do you have TCL 8.4 installed?  If so
> >> then maybe the file is named something different, have a look in /usr/lib for
> >> files with tcl in there name and change the makefile to point to the correct
> >> library.
> >> 
> >> HTH
> >> 
> >> Alastair
> >> 
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