Orca RE: ./configure information

["Mike Wigle" <Mike Wigle cincyblind org>]

Yeah well, I'm not one to keep things simple. I decided to toast my SUSE
machine and replace it with Ubuntu 5.10 as was suggested and I even gave
it a hardware upgrade so I'm running 512 MB instead of 256 MB of RAM.
And about twice as much horsepower too. I can already feel the
difference. Of course, that means I'll have to start over with the
installation of Orca but hopefully it will go more smoothly this time
now that I am a bit more informed. Would you still recommend that I use
the prefix=/usr on the configure? Also, should I be doing that on all
the programs I compile and install so they all install to the same
place?

Michael Wigle

-----Original Message-----
From: Willie Walker [mailto:William Walker Sun COM] 
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:43 AM
To: Orca screen reader developers
Subject: Re: ./configure information (was Re: Orca Installation problem)

> I want to thank Willie and Willem for all the help. I have some  
> success
> to report! I managed to get the orca-setup program to run properly.  
> The
> prefix=/usr command on the configuration did the job. It even spoke to
> me at the end!

Yeah!  This is a great step.


> magnification. As a side note, I noticed someone else had trouble with
> festival and that's the only TTS engine I have installed. What's the
> preferred TTS engine for Orca? Also, I couldn't find a QUICKSTART file
> anywhere, just the TODO and README.

Dang.  I probably forgot to put the QUICKSTART in the list of files  
to include in the tarball.  But...that's OK.  I think we should  
migrate to the web page and WIKI:

   http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca/

It's very nascent at the moment, but hopefully members of the  
community will help us fill out specifics for various distributions.

Will