Re: [orca-list] [solved] Re: Arch+orca stopped talking to me

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

I received a PKGBUILD for orca 3.7.91 off list. Looks like it actually 
pulls down the release tarball and builds it. I'm told that it requires 
downgrading automake to 1.12. I installed the automake-1.12 package from 
AUR, and it builds correctly. This PKGBUILD appears to be based on the 
abs version of Orca's PKGBUILD for 3.6.1, but with some extra sha256 
sums and the python2 dependencies replaced with python, which in Arch 
represents python 3. I can send you the PKGBUILD off list if you like. 
Since this builds for a release rather than from git, it may be possible 
to upload this or a cleaned up version to AUR as orca-latest, 
orca-testing or similar.

For some time now, the AUR package orca-git has failed to build. Seems 
it depends on a package called python-wnck, which is no longer present 
in AUR. If this dependency problem can be fixed, it will once again be 
possible to build and install orca-git from AUR. It should be possible 
now with a simple edit of the PKGBUILD, but packer, the AUR helper I 
use, keeps trying to download python-wnck before I can even edit the 
PKGBUILD for orca-git. My next step is to attempt to download the AUR 
tarball and build it manually with the python-wnck dependency removed, 
and modifying the rest of the dependencies to match the orca 3.7.91 
PKGBUILD I have if necessary.

As for the atk, at-spi2-core and at-spi2-atk packages, I actually 
received links to prebuilt binary packages for these rather than 
PKGBUILD files. It's possible these are in AUR as well, but either they 
are not there, or they fail to build. I just installed the binary 
packages, I didn't try building them from AUR. These packages are 
optional at this time, however, as Orca 3.7.91 works fine with the 
current official packages. There have been some bugfixes though that may 
make it worth upgrading to these releases.
~Kyle
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