[orca-list] Debugging a Broken Orca

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

I have successfully built an arch Linux package for Orca from git but
before anyone gets excited about the build script, it is broken!
Compiled OK with automake 1.12 and speech-dispatcher 0.8 works OK when
I test with 'spd-say' from a command line using Speakup.  Problem is
when I start up gnome with 'startx', I get silence. No speech at all.
I cannot find the log files for Orca anymore; I used to have a
directory in my $HOME called .orca but I think that went away with
older versions so at this point, I don't know where or how to find any
debug output to see what is wrong.  I fell back to Orca 3.6.3 from
normal Arch repos and it appears to be working again.

So can anyone get me up to speed on how to debug orca now days?  Also,
with both the production and git versions, I tried to run 'orca
--version' from a text console, thinking I would get some output in
the form of version information or something and in both cases, I got
trace back with different information from each version of the
program.  I can include those in a later post if desired.

Anyway, I'm down for the count right now when it comes to running a
git version of Orca on my current up to date Arch Linux box.