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>Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:23:39 -0500 >From: William Walker Sun COM >Subject: Re: [orca-list] broken accesibility (was help building at-spi) >To: aerospace1028 hotmail com >CC: orca-list gnome org > >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. > I realize that the 2.22 branch is antiquated, but it's what I'm using for now. I *will* be upgrading to lucid in the spring and attempt to keep up with the semi-anual version changes. But for the moment, Ubuntu Hardy provided a good training ground for getting aclamated to linux. I know there's not much difference between 2.22.1 and 2.22.3, but I did manage earlier in the summer to get 2.22.3 to successfully build. After ai accidently broke my system and re-installed, I wanted to make sure I could still get everythin up and running (in prepperation for the future switch to lucid). >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 > Thanks. That seems to have worked. i now have the correct 2.22.3 edition of orca. I'll double check the orca wiki and add this in if fneeded. Either I misrecorded my notes from last summer, or I got lucky and ended up with orca2.22.3 when first I attempted to build from git:-) >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 > Sorry, I have been using the prefix and libexecdir flags with autogen.sh. I added in the sysconfdir flag just to be safe. I had meant I was running autogen.sh with the correct flags as recommended on the orca wiki. Sorry for the ambiguity. Thanks for all the help:-) Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. |