[BRLTTY] How-to properly configure brltty shipped in a Linux distribution?

Didier Spaier didier at slint.fr
Wed Feb 10 15:58:23 EST 2016


On 10/02/2016 21:47, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Didier Spaier on 2016/01/14 at 22:44 +0100]
> 
> I'm not sure if this one ever was answered:

It was, but not in this list ;)
I asked also in a French list:  carrefourblinux at lists.tuxfamily.org
and as t happens Samuel is also helpful there...

>> I will ship brltty version 5.3.1 in the upcoming Slint version 14.2
>>
>> Unfortunately I am neither a user nor a developer.
>>
>> I tried to understand the output of ./configure --help but that just increased 
>> my perplexity.
>>
>> So, please give me advises for a proper configuration, i.e. one that would be 
>> able to deal with all kinds of hardware, connection mode (usb, Bluetooth, 
>> serial line), languages, both in the installer and in the installed system.
> 
> I'd say that the answer is actually very simple as the options to configure 
> have been designed to default to what's usually needed. So my recommendation is 
> just to add configure options if you encounter something that actually needs to 
> be specifically set.

Thanks. Samuel gave me substantially the same answer in the
other list, so I feel 10O% comfortable with this recommendation!

Best regards,
Didier


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