Re: Error opening brlapi connection

[Dave Mielke <dave mielke cc>]

[quoted lines by Kenny Hitt on 2005/04/15 at 08:57 -0500]

>I configured Brltty 3.6.1 with the following:
>
>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
>--infodir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man --libexecdir=/usr/lib

None of these configure options should be necessary, i.e. the defaults should
be adequate. It's far better, for example, to install brltty in /bin, rather
than in /usr/bin, since, especially for those who maintain /usr in a separate
partition, that still allows brltty to be started early enough for the user to
independently perform esseentially all system administrative tasks.

>The
>ttybrl.c file in the 3.6.1 tarball or the svn of Brltty doesn't compile
>on my system.

The ttybrl.c currently available from the later revisions of BRLTTY's
repository does work. There was a temporary situation where it wouldn't, but
that was fixed yesterday evening. The only restriction is that it won't build
if you're using a recent (but not the latest) revision of BRLTTY. Specifically,
if you have any revision of BRLTTY from 1460 (2005-04-08 00:30:38 -0400)
through 1484 (2005-04-14 15:01:01) then you should upgrade to at least revision
1485.

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