Re: [orca-list] updating orca on opensuse

[Aruni Sharma <libranarsh gmail com>]

Hi Bryan, I did as you said. However, I am facing the following error.
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
testing autoconf2.50... not found.
testing autoconf... found 2.61
checking for automake >= 1.9...
testing automake-1.10... not found.
testing automake-1.9... found 1.9
checking for libtool >= 1.4.3...
testing libtoolize... found 1.4.3
checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
testing glib-gettextize... found 2.16.3
checking for intltool >= 0.25...
testing intltoolize... found 0.40.3
Checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
testing pkg-config... found 0.23
checking for gnome-common >= 2.3.0...
testing gnome-doc-common... found 2.20.0
Checking for required M4 macros...
glib-gettext-m4 not found
pkg-m4 not found
***error:*** some autoconf macros required to build orca were not found 
in your aclocal path or some forbidden macros were found. Perhaps you 
need to adjust your ACLOCAL_FLAGS


Regards,
Aruni.
Brian G. Merrell wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:58:09AM -0400, Aruni Sharma wrote:
>    
> > Hi after much effort I am unable to update orca through svn trunk or
> > otherwise. I would like to use the latest version of orca so that I
> > can dettermine whether there is some improvement in accessibility in
> > opensuse 11. I am otherwise very happy with this particular distro.
> >      
>
> Assuming you're on a 32-bit openSUSE machine:
>
> 1. Update intltool
>
>         a.  First, remove intltool by running:  zypper rm intltool (as root)
>
>         b.  svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/intltool/trunk intltool ;
>              cd intltool
>
>         c.  ./autogen ; make ; sudo make install
>
> 2. Install python development packages
>
>         a.  zypper in python-devel (run this as root)
>
> 3. Update Orca
>
>         a.  First, remove orca by running:  zypper rm orca (as root)
>
>         b.  svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/orca/trunk orca ;
>             cd orca
>
>         c.  ./autogen ; make ; sudo make install
>
> That should be all you need.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian G. Merrell
>