Re: [orca-list] Compiling Gnome

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Sebastien:

The 'official' word (i.e., from me ;-)) is that Orca is supported on 
the version of GNOME that it ships with.  So, Orca 2.20.x is for GNOME 
2.20.x, and Orca 2.21.x is for GNOME 2.21.x, etc.

The unofficial word for is that you can use Orca 2.21.x on a GNOME 
2.20.x system just fine, but you need to build/install extra stuff as 
you indicate below.  The order of the building depends upon the order 
of the dependencies.  Here's how I remember the order:

1) The AT-SPI defines the overall API and provides the overall support 
for the infrastructure, so at-spi need to be built first.

2) The ATK provides the generic layer for toolkits to use the 
infrastructure, so the atk needs to be built second.

3) GAIL uses ATK to provide AT-SPI support for GTK+, so it needs to be 
built after ATK and AT-SPI

4) Orca depends upon all the above.

Hope this helps,

Will

PS -  I just updated http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall to 
include the right order.

On Jan 28, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> 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.
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