Re: [orca-list] Building the latest Orca, together with at-spi, atk and gail

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> 1. I cannot build the dependencies of atk:
> sudo apt-get build-dep atk

I don't know about this one - I'm not sure what package Ubuntu puts atk 
in.  :-(

> 2. I need clarification of the following line:
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`
> What does that ` mean? Trying to type this command results in the
> message, that "prefix" needs an absolute path.

This is a string substitution technique for the shell.  It means 
"execute everything between the two backquotes ( ` ) and put the 
resulting output from it here".

I think the current way it is used on the WIKI is a bit of overkill, and 
you can most likely safely get by with --prefix=/usr.

BTW, what do you get when you run the command between the backquotes?

Will