Re: [orca-list] Compiling Gnome

[Sébastien Hinderer <Sebastien Hinderer ens-lyon org>]

Dear Steve,

Many, many thanks for your reply. It will definitely be helpful.

> The best way to get there would be to go to 
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Firefox

Thanks. I already followed the instructions on the DownloadInstall page
of Orca's wiki.
So the question is more like: which components of gnome should be
recompiled rom sources ?

> and read down to the links that discuss updating Orca.  This
> documentation stresses the importance of updating at-spi and Orca with
> svn (subversion) but once going through there, you will soon realize
> you need to update atk as well.  I've seen on list here that gail is
> kept to current svn levels too.
>  
> So in summary, you would svn gail from gnome's svn, build it, install
> it and then proceed to atk and do the same.  After that, build and
> install at-spi per the directions given at the Orca wiki and finally
> Orca itself.

Okay so you recommend a four-steps procedure which consists in
compiling/installing
1. gail
2. atk
3. at-spi
4. orca

Is it correct that this procedure _won't_ update the whole gnome desktop
from the debian-packaged version 2.20 to the development version 2.22 ?
My understanding was that that it's really important to update the whole
gnome desktop. Is that true or will the previous procedure be enough ?

Thanks for helping,
Sébastien.