[BRLTTY] Configure bug?

Adrian van Bloois adrian at pa0rda.nl
Mon Feb 27 08:48:09 EST 2017


On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 04:34:31PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Adrian van Bloois on 2017/02/26 at 12:43 +0100]
> 
> >When I specifiy:
> >	--prefix=/usr/local \
> >	--sysconfdir=/etc \
> >	--localstatedir=/var \
> >	--libdir=/usr/local/lib \
> >	--with-drivers-directory=/usr/local/lib64/brltty \
> >
> >
> >when configuring brltty libdir and driver-directory are not set to the
> >values I want. Libdir is /usr/lib and the drivers-directory is
> >/usr/lib/brltty.
> >This is NOT what I want.
> >Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug in the configure script?
> 
> I just ran configure with exactly these options. The only difference was that I 
> added -q so as not to get all of the output. My config.mk correctly contains:
> 
>    libdir = /usr/local/lib
> 
> Maybe your config.log contains a clue.
Not sure what it is, but I have this script containing my configure set.
When I run it with sh like: sh <MYCONFIGURE it goes wrong when I use tcsh
like: tcsh <MYCONFIGURE it works fine.
It looks like an shell issue.
Now I have the next problem, libdir is now /usr/local/lib64 and
drivers-directory is /usr/local/lib64/brltty, everyting looks fine until
I start brltty.
In the log:
2017-02-27 at 14:17:53.831 [brltty] checking braille device: usb:
2017-02-27 at 14:17:53.831 [brltty] checking for braille driver: al
2017-02-27 at 14:17:53.831 [brltty] initializing braille driver: al -> usb:
2017-02-27 at 14:17:53.963 [brltty] braille driver initialization failed: al -> usb:
2017-02-27 at 14:17:53.963 [brltty] braille driver not found
2017-02-27 at 14:17:53.963 [brltty] activity action failed: braille-driver: start


Is this a usb thing or an al thing???

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