Re: [orca-list] orca build questions

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

GAIL has been moved into GTK+, so you should no longer need to 
build/install it.  In fact, doing so might conflict with the GAIL that 
comes with GTK+.

Will

Daniel Dalton wrote:
> 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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