Re: [orca-list] not finding braille contraction tables after manual installation

[Peter Rayner <prayner unimelb edu au>]

Apologies all 'round, I had liblouis installed but installing the
headers had failed and I'd missed the relevant configure message, fine now.
thanks again
Peter

Jason White writes:
> Are you sure that, when you build Orca, it's finding the liblouis header files under /usr/include? If it 
> doesn't, I'm not sure whether it will continue to compile without the contraction table support, or fail 
> during the "configure" step.
>
> On 2/14/20, 15:13, "Peter Rayner" <prayner unimelb edu au> wrote:
>
>    Jason White writes:
>    >Do you have liblouis and its header files installed? I know that's obvious, but let's rule it  out to 
> begin with.
>    Yes, I should have said that running the distribution orca
>    (/usr/bin/orca -r -s) shows me a list of possible contraction tables.
>    Peter
>    
>    >On 2/14/20, 04:34, "orca-list on behalf of Peter Rayner via orca-list" <orca-list-bounces gnome org on 
> behalf of orca-list gnome org> wrote:
>    >
>    >    I've manually installed orca on my ubuntu 18.04LTS system. It's in
>    >    /usr/local/bin.
>    >    Running /usr/local/bin/orca -r -s
>    >    gets me the preferences as hoped but when I try to configure braille
>    >    contraction tables there's nothing showing in the combo box. A debug
>    >    log also says combo box reports no children.
>    >    make clean; autogen.southern hemisphere; make; make install
>    >    doesn't change this. I remember something from a thread a while back
>    >    on the order of installing liblouis or brltty or something similar.
>    >    Can someone remind me?
>    >    thanks in advance
>    >    Peter
>    >    
>    >    
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Peter Rayner
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