[BRLTTY] brltty installed on Mac with screen-4.2.1

[Chris Moore]

Great news!
I did something similar with good results so far.  I have macports installed so I used —prefix=/opt/local.  I still want to keep my additions away from the tree in the official OS.  
I did a sudo make install without bothering to create symlinks to the binary.
Finally, you can do a sudo screan without specifying the absolute path.  You can verify the location of the binary with which screen.

I guess we can conclude that any additional patches applied by macports may not be required for our purposes.
I’ll leave you with one final goody.  I was able to access an older serial braille display using a keyspan usb to serial adapter.  The mac driver provided a tty device with which brltty could communicate without any issues.

Chris
On Sep 23, 2014, at 8:55 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com> wrote:

> I just installed screen-4.2.1 on Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks and am using it with brltty as my usual user. I used the source from
> 
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/
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> It appears to be working fine so far and there was no need to do anything but patch, compile/install and create the symlink. There was no need to do anything with chmod and no need to run either screen or brltty with su. I am keeping screen-4.0.1 around just for a little while to make sure all is running smoothly and then I plan to delete it.
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> -- 
> Cheryl
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> and therefore I have hope:
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