Hi all, Recently I decided to build my own brltty from svn on Ubuntu. (I was ultimately successful.)
This is the first time I've done this on a system based on a single CD; always before I've used the Red Hat/Fedora systems that come on (the equivalent of) 4 or 5 CDs and provide a complete build environment if you install everything which I always have. It was easy enough to figure out I needed to install subversion <grin> and tcl, especially with the hints provided by Ubuntu when you try to execute an unknown command. But when I reached the point where ./configure failed because "The C compiler cannot produce object programs" (possibly paraphrased) I was stumped. So I figured that rather than just trying commands, what I ought to do was look up the system requirements. But they were far too difficult to find. Fortunately the pre-installed version included the manual (though in a non-standard location: /usr/share/doc/brltty/English I think) and I found the requirements buried deep in there, but I think they need to be put into some kind of install file in the top-level directory, either at the beginning of README or somewhere equally obvious and accessible. (The problem turned out to be that g++ wasn't installed if I remember correctly.) Just an idea... -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
