Re: Orca RE: ./configure information

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

> 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.

Cool.  If you're willing, Ubuntu Dapper Drake might be the better  
thing to try right now.  Upgrading 5.10 to GNOME 2.14 might be a bit  
of a struggle.

> 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?

From previous conversations on the list, it looks like Ubuntu has  
done the appropriate magic to Python let the default prefix (/usr/ 
local) work well.  But...I've not tried this and will probably stick  
to --prefix=/usr for my own work.

Thanks much for hanging in there and for your enthusiasm!

Will