Re: [orca-list] The great secret of building from source

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

On Thu, 17 May 2012, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:

> now to compile:
> cd orca
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
> make

autogen.sh will run configure at least in almost all modules, so you 
generally don't need to run both configure and autogen.sh. Also, 
/usr/local will be the default prefix unless you've explicitly set things 
up otherwise, so you shouldn't need to write --prefix=/usr/local.

In theory, configure will complain if you don't have a new enough version 
of something that Orca needs.

Installing AT-SPI is similar, except that the modules are at-spi2-core, 
at-spi2-atk, and pyatspi2. ie, something like
git clone git://git.gnome.org/at-spi2-core
cd at-spi2-core
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

And, yeah, this is probably a FAQ.

-Mike