[BRLTTY] brltty installed on Mac with screen-4.2.1

[Cheryl Homiak]

Oh yes, I have been using a braillelite40 with brltty for years and it works very well. But the question that puzzles me is: why are you having to use sudo to get screen to work? This really shouldn't be necessary. While I did not have to do anything after installing screen-4.2.1, it still seems to me that this may be a permissions problem. I also run macports but since I already was using a screen installationin /usr/bin, i decided to leave it there for the time being. Of course, one runs macports using sudo so maybe this isn't a big deal but, while I run brltty as root on linux, I would rather run it as a normal user on the Mac.
-- 
Cheryl

I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and life:
His joy for my despairing tears!
And now, every day:
"This I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the Lord
never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness."
(Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV)




On Sep 23, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Chris Moore <chris.w1gm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Cheryl
>> 
>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
>> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
>> thrown in the trash!
>> Then God gave me a new heart and life:
>> His joy for my despairing tears!
>> And now, every day:
>> "This I call to mind,
>> and therefore I have hope:
>> The steadfast love of the Lord
>> never ceases;
>> his mercies never come to an end;
>> they are new every morning;
>> great is your faithfulness."
>> (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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