Re: [orca-list] Need help with gnome-speech.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thomas:

Can you please send the errors from the compile?

Will

Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I have ben out of the Linux loop for quite a while, and this passed
> Sunday I installed ubuntu 8.04 on one of my computers at home. However,
> I absolutely can't stand the Espeak voices that come with Ubuntu  8.
> What I want to do is recompile gnome-speech 04.16 with drivers for my
> Dectalk and Cepstral software but I am getting errors.
> Here is what I have done I have installed the Dectalk 5 software,
> installed Cepstral, and also installed Festival with the Festival dev
> packages. Then, I grabbed  the official gnome-speech 04.16 source code
> from gnome.org.
> Before compiling I ran the following updates so I get a gnome-speech
> build.
>
> sudo apt-get install build-essential
> sudo apt-get install autoconf
> sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-speech
> sudo apt-get install festival
> sudo apt-get install festival-doc
> sudo apt-get install festival-dev
> sudo apt-get install festvox-kallpc16k
> sudo apt-get install festvox-kdlpc16k
> sudo apt-get install festvox-rablpc16k
>
> Under normal circomstances this is enough to get a decent build of the
> gnome-speech services with festival support plus I already mentioned
> install Cepstral and Dectalk so those dependancies are there as well.
> Now, I unpacked gnome-speech-04.16.tar.gz
> and changed to the directory.
> In gnome-terminal I did
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
>
> The autoconf configuration part of the compile worked fine. no warnings,
> errors, etc. However, during the make process gnome-speech completely
> bombed out. The Cepstral and Dectalk, and even the festival speech
> servers compiled fine. However, everytime it gets to the espeak part of
> the compile it blows up. I would like to do one of two things. Either I
> would like to tell the compile to completely ignore espeak server, or I
> would like to have someone tell me what packages I must remove in order
> for gnome-speech to not see them and compile. I have tried removing the
> espeak package, but it still picks it up and tries compiling. So no
> good. I need a list of packages to remove or some command to pass to
> autoconf to tell it no I do not want, will not want, and please don't
> compile a espeak server.
> Thanks.
>
>
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