[BRLTTY] BRLTTY as ordinary user

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hi

I am trying to run BRLTTY as ordinary user. I followed the documentation from
<http://brltty.app/doc/Linux.html> and have succeeded so far that I have
speech and braille working. Two minor issues remain, automatic bluetooth
detection of my HandyTech bluetooth display (works fine via USB) and keyboard
(uinput) device creation. For bluetooth I have added BRLTTY to the bluetooth
group. I checked and ran the following:

$ sudo getcap /opt/brltty.u/bin/brltty
/opt/brltty.u/bin/brltty = cap_chown,cap_dac_override,cap_fowner,cap_setgid,cap_sys_module,cap_sys_admin,cap_sys_tty_config,cap_mknod+p
# It shows cap_mknod+p instead of cap_mknod, not sure whether this is a problem
$ sudo chown brltty /run/brltty
$ sudo chgrp brltty /run/brltty
$ LC_ALL=C sudo -u brltty /opt/brltty.u/bin/brltty -l 7

The log file is attached.

I also tried to do some more testing in a clean chroot environment. There I
configured BRLTTY with --prefix=/home/myuser/brl and got issues during make
install:

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./../brltty.pc /home/myuser/brl/lib/pkgconfig/brltty.pc
../getrevid -p "revision_identifier=" ../ >>/home/myuser/brl/lib/pkgconfig/brltty.pc
getrevid: unrecognized source repository type: ../
getrevid: revision identifier not known
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1183: install-pkgconfig-file] Error 3
make[1]: Leaving directory '/src/foreign/brltty/Programs'
make: *** [Makefile:48: install] Error 2

Thanks!
Sebastian
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