[BRLTTY] Trouble installing the latest version
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Sun Jul 17 15:34:05 EDT 2016
[quoted lines by Amanda Lacy on 2016/07/17 at 14:19 -0500]
>Someone informed me that I needed a later version, so I'm trying to
>install it. But first, why does apt-get install brltty-5.2? Why not
>the latest
>version as anyone would expect?
There's usually a delay between when a package is released and when a
distribution picks it up.
>I downloaded, unpacked and configured brltty-5.4.tar.gz. Sudo make
>install produced these errors:
>strip:/bin/brltty-ktb: File format not recognized
>/usr/bin/install: strip process terminated abnormally
>makefile:961: recipe for target 'install-program' failed
>...
You're probably building on an architecture that doesn't support (or
incorrectly supports) the stripping of executables. For now, perhaps you need
to configure with: --disable-stripping
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