Re: [orca-list] The Orca Wiki, building Orca in Arch Linux, and a Question about Open Solaris

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Hi,
Well, the reason I want to build from source is, I want to try things with XFCE. I have tried Gnome with Orca on this computer and it's a bit much for it to handle. So far, it has had fewer problems with XFCE. So, I would need to switch to the xdesktop branch of orca and build it. I was thinking of just doing pacman -S orca and seeing what happens but it's 3.something version now and it wanted to install a lot of stuff, so I thought maybe going through git would be a better way. It's really too badpacman doesn't have something like apt-get build-dep. that would make things a lot easier.
Thanks
Storm

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On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 00:10 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I'm an active Arch user and would be willing to update the wiki where
> necessary.  My thing lately has been to figure the difference with
> GNOME 3 as my system has gone through multiple rolling updates since
> the time of my "bare metal install" from over two years ago.  I just
> recently upgraded another Arch box to GNOME 3 and had to go through
> the PulseAudio crippling drill to get Orca talking again.  That worked
> for me so now I need to come up with some clear and concise
> instructions to accomplish this.  Actually from what I recalled in the
> past with Arch, all I did was install gnome and gnome-extra and then
> do a 'startx' and run Orca manually and go through the setup.  this
> might vary now with GNOME 3 coming up for the first time; not sure
> yet.
>
> I think the way to really clearly document a process, I should do a
> bare metal install of Arch Linux on a stripped machine and write down
> every step I take.  So often, we have to bounce off the walls,
> guessing certain steps til it works and after that, you can't recall a
> clear list of what exactly worked and what steps were experimental and
> not worked.
>
> Sorry for the verbosity of this reply but some excuses might be in
> order here.  Let me see what I can add to the wiki.  I wrote some
> stuff a while back about getting gdm to talk on Arch but dunno if
> those instructions are valid for GNOME 3 or not.  I just startx here.
>
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 04:46:10PM -0400, Storm Dragon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > You know, that subject line seems longer than it is lol. So, I went to
> > the Orca wiki to find out what all is needed to build Orca on Arch Linux
> > because I want to build the Desktop version. There are no instructions
> > there for Arch though. So, if one of our more advanced Arch users feels
> > like sending me instructions I would be glad to edit the wiki. Of
> > course, if you want to edit the wiki yourself that would be great too,
> > but I am certainly open to doing it.
> > Also, isn't Open Solaris a Casualty of Oracle? There are still build
> > instructions for it on the wiki though. shouldn't these be changed to
> > something else, like building for Open Indiana?
> > Thanks
> > Storm
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