[BRLTTY] Trouble nstalling on the Mac

[John Covici]

I have had no problems using vmware fusion 8 in El Capitan.  I give it
4g or 8g and it seems to  work.

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:26:16 -0400,
Amanda Lacy wrote:
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> Yeah, I think I'm following the same complicated list of instructions you're thinking of: http://brltty.mielke.narkive.com/9QBwp00R/installing-brltty-on-the-mac
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> Are you suggesting running Linux in a VM? Because I already have one, but VMWare is slow and freezes in El Capitan.
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>  On Aug 24, 2016, at 9:55 PM, Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  The way of installing brltty on the Mac is pretty complicated. You have to get a special version of "screen," build it, then build brltty after that gets situated, and that's only the steps I remember. It'd be a lot easier if you
>  just installed Linux on the Mac, although Emacspeak doesn't seem to be working as well on Linux as it does on the Mac, somehow. I've installed Sonar Gnu-linux on my Mac, and it works pretty well.. 
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>  On Aug 24, 2016, at 9:40 PM, Amanda Lacy <lacy925 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  I got the source from git, then in that folder I typed ./autogen. I
>  got this error: ./autogen: line 25: autoconf: command not found.
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>  Do I need to install autoconf on my Mac? Thanks.
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