Re: [orca-list] broken accesibility (was help building at-spi)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

If you already have the 2.22 packages on your machine, rebuilding/installing them is, at best, going to give you the same thing you already have and, at worst, screw your machine up if you do something incorrectly. :-(  So, if you cannot upgrade to a more recent version of Ubuntu (I'd highly recommend this since 2.22 is quite old and the Orca you will be using has nowhere near the functionality of Orca 2.28.x), I guess I'd recommend you refresh/reinstall the 2.22 packages from the Ubuntu servers.

For general GIT usage, you might take a look at http://live.gnome.org/Git/Developers

In looking at that page, it appears as though the "git checkout" commands you are using will not give you the results you expect.  Instead of:

git checkout -b origin/gnome-2-22

You need to do:

git checkout -b gnome-2-22 origin/gnome-2-22

Note also that just running autogen.sh by itself is not going to be enough.  You'll need to use --prefix, --libexecdir, and --sysconfdir options to get things to install to the proper locations.  Hardy is quite old and I cannot remember the exact places it put things, so I can only guess that you might want:

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib/at-spi

The libexecdir thing is going to be the one that's difficult to figure out.  If the at-spi-registryd file is in /usr/lib/at-spi/at-spi-registryd, then the line I gave you above should work.

Hope this helps,

Will

On Jan 10, 2010, at 3:43 PM, aerospace1028 hotmail com wrote:

> <x-tad-bigger> greetings,</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>I feel I might have forgotten some important information in my previous post.  (1) I have a working braille display and found brltty to still be working in the text consoles. (2) I still have a backup archieve I made of the system in November.</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>After removing atk, at-spi an orca with "make uninstall" I tried re-installing the default packages from the hardy repositories.  Apt continually told me at-spi and atk were the newest installed, but I kept getting the "at-spi requested but not available message' on graphical log-in.</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>I restored from my backup archive and am now back up and running.  I am using the default orca2.22.1 that comes with Ubuntu hardy.</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>I am still interested in building orca on my machine.  CAN ANYONE CONFIRM THAT IF I attempt to retrieve atk, at-spi and orca again I will get the 2-22 branch and*not* the 2-29 branch as before?</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>gt clone git://git.gnome.org/atk atk</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>cd atk</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>git checkout -b origin/gnome-2-22</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>cd ../</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>gt clone git://git.gnome.org/at-spi at-spi</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>cd at-spi</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>git checkout -b origin/gnome-2-22</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>cd ../</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>gt clone git://git.gnome.org/orca orca</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>cd orca</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>git checkout -b origin/gnome-2-22</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>previously the problem appeared to start with at-spi.  Is there a way I can verify between the make and make install steps that I hav built the version of atk and at-spi I intended?  With orca, I think I could type "./orca --version" to confirm I have the right version before I commit it to my machine with "make install."  atk and at-spi aren't actual program names like orca, so how could I garentee to myself that make, made the correct version?</x-tad-bigger>
> <x-tad-bigger>thanks in advance:-) </x-tad-bigger>
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