Re: [orca-list] A couple of questions about orca sources

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Jen:

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 19:08 +0100, Jennifer wrote:
> Hi. I have downloaded the latest orca sources and followed the
> instructions for installing them (obtained from the gnome website).
> According to the results of the command orca --version (checking the
> git status also gives the same result) I am running version 2.27.92
> pree
> Is this the latest version as of Friday 9th October, retrieved by
> using the git clone command (without specifying a branch?

The configure.in file in the repository is what ends up setting this
value.  I forgot to change the value to 2.29.1pre when I branched Orca
for 2.28.0.  So, it was still stuck at 2.27.92pre.  I just checked in a
change to update configure.in to flag the git master branch as
2.29.1pre.

> If it is then the orca directory is visible in my /home/jen directory,
> it was not visible before I installed these sources. Is orca running
> from these sources by default? The command string in gnome
> (/home/jen/orca) suggests that it is, and I can't remember if orca was
> located in the same directory (but just hidden) last time.
> If the new sources are not being used by default could someone please
> tell me how to make them default, and if I should hide the orca
> directory or move it to a more appropriate place?

Where Orca ends up depends upon the --prefix flag you passed to the
autogen.sh or configure file.  The orca build/install is also set up so
that it should find the right Python modules.  I regularly run the
following command from my orca directory:

./autogen.sh --prefix=`pwd`/bld

With this, I can keep /usr/bin/orca at the version of Orca installed by
the operating system distribution, while also working with the Orca
sources from git.
 
> I also can't make Liblouis or brltty 4.0. I had some issues making the
> brltty at work so don't think it is just something related to my
> distro (9.04) Will liblouis be included in Orca installs by default?

Liblouis and brltty are separate projects, so Orca doesn't include them.
Instead, the packaging of these is dependent upon your operating system
distribution.

Hope this helps,

Will