Re: [orca-list] Compiling Gnome

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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Wow, it's a miricle my system runs at all then.:) I got most of that
order totally backwards.  <hmmm> the next time some updates appear in
svn, I'll reverse my build order.  I like having the improvements in
accessibility and I thought I heard that 2.20 branch wasn't getting as
many of these fixes.

Well, my steak dinner tastes much better now than it did on Friday
night when I was being relegated to eating a peanut butter sandwich..)

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:45:23AM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> 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, SÃbastien 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,
> > SÃbastien.
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>
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