[BRLTTY] Questions about brltty and Orca

[Didier Spaier]

Le 10/09/2017 à 20:17, Didier Spaier a écrit :> Le 09/09/2017 à 13:16, Dave Mielke a écrit :
> 
>>> 4) In the above described context, do I need to ship brlAPI? so far
>>> I target end users rather that developers, so I am considering not
>>> installing it by default, but providing it as a package. What do you
>>> think? Is it needed beyond developing new drivers or such use cases?
>>
>> That depends on what's in your BrlAPI package. While you don't need to install 
>> its headers and documentation, you do need to install its shared object (.so 
>> file) and bindings (e.g. Orca uses BrlAPI's Python bindings).
> 
> 
> So I did.
> However, when I try to build Orca I get:
> 
>  
> checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 3.3... python3
> checking for python3... /usr/bin/python3
> checking for python3 version... 3.5
> checking for python3 platform... linux
> checking for python3 script directory... ${prefix}/lib64/python3.5/site-packages
> checking for python3 extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib64/python3.5/site-packages
> checking for python module gi... yes
> checking for python module json... yes
> checking for python module brlapi... no
> checking for python module speechd... yes
> checking for python module louis... yes
> 
> My guess is that it doesnt find BrlAPI's Python bindings,
> because python-brlapi-0.6.6-1.x86_64.rpm ships:
> 
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/Brlapi-0.6.6-py2.7.egg-info
> /usr/lib64/pytho/usr/lib64/python2.7n2.7/site-packages/brlapi.so
> 
> and configure looks in /usr/lib64/python3.5, not /usr/lib64/python2.7
> 
> Should I just try to make symlinks or a copy, or do I need to rebuild
> the Python bindings?
> 
> And in the latter case, where do I find the sources?

Well, I didn't realize that the BRlap is just a branch of the brltty
tree.

But the recent versions of Orca need Python3, so I ended rebuilding
the whole brltty with PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3 and that made Orca happy.

Have a good day,

Didier