On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:20:02PM -0400, aerospace1028 hotmail com wrote:
greetings, I am getting ready to perform my first build of orca and have a couple of questions. I am planning to build to my ubuntu 8.04 (LTS) system. (1) There was a post a few weeks ago claiming that when building orca, it is no longer necessary to build gail (leaving atk, at-spi and orca). Is this retro-active to the level of gnome in ubuntu 8.04 (I think it's gnome-2.24)?
It'll probably work, but I would still build them.
(2) Is it necessary to uninstall atk or at-spi before building? Following
Not with my experiences
the directions from the wiki, all packages are built into /usr; I think I remember that since orca is origianally installed at /usr/local after installing ubuntu for the first time, building orca to /usr places it closer to the head of the path list: thus the new orca will be found by default and if there's any problem, the new orca can be removed and old
Yes, echo $PATH to confirm
orca will be untouched. Is this the same for atk and at-spi?
Well you could always just reinstall with aptitude, I don't think it is though.
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