Re: Orca Can't get orca working with braille.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Luke:

Orca currently dlopen's libbrlapi.so and resolves BrlAPI symbols at run
time.  We realize this is a point of contention with the BrlAPI
developers, but the main reason Orca does this is to eliminate the hard
requirement that BrlTTY/BrlAPI be installed on the machine in order to
build and/or use Orca.  (Not all screen reader users are braille users).

I think the ultimate solution may be to use the Python module being
developed by the BrlAPI folks, but that's currently not very far along
as far as I can tell.

Will

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 22:45 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:21:40PM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> > Thanks. Now to get brltty fixed so that users don't have to do that any 
> > more.
> 
> It turns out for some weird reason, that Orca will not work with 
> libbrlapi, unless the /lib/libbrlapi.so file/symbolic link is present. 
> However, the brlmodule.so file doesn't link against that filename 
> specifically.
> 
> We can work around it in the Ubuntu packages for now, but it is 
> something that needs to be looked into.
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