[BRLTTY] Problem compiling BRLTTY source from Github on the latest Mac OS 10.11.x

Mon Nov 2 01:54:08 EST 2015

Turns out I downloaded screen-4.3.1 and not 4.2.1. After downloading and
compiling the latter, everything seems to work fine.
I amen able to use BRLTTY with Emacs (to some extent).

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com> wrote:

> First of all, are you using screen-4.2.1 or screen-4.0.1 or some other
> version?
>
> Secondly, did you patch your source of screen before configuring and
> compiling it but after installing brltty?
>
> I have recently worked with installing both screen-4.0.1 and 4.2.1 on El
> Capitan and nothing has stopped the install. Did your install actually come
> up with an error or was this just a warning?
>
> Just trying to cover all the bases. Answer these questions and we will see
> where we are from there.
>
> --
> Cheryl
>
> May the words of my mouth
> and the meditation of my heart
> be acceptable to You, Lord,
> my rock and my Redeemer.
> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 1, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> Unfortunately, when I attempt to compile screen, the "make" stops with
> errors on tump.o. Seems like this has been deprecated and doesn't parse on
> Mac OS X.
> Anyone else has seen this?
>
> Thanks,
> Victor
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com> wrote:
>
>> See your messge below, Chris. You must still be using autocorrection and
>> it is still calling brltty bratty - lol!
>>
>> Doing it in your user directory is fine except that you might have a
>> problem if you ever want to run a user account for some reason.
>>
>> Victor, you are very welcome; I'm glad the solution was so simple. And
>> yes, the problem appears to be that you may not have installed screen and
>> started it first. That would definitely give you "no screen".
>>
>> --
>> Cheryl
>>
>> May the words of my mouth
>> and the meditation of my heart
>> be acceptable to You, Lord,
>> my rock and my Redeemer.
>> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 1, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Chris Moore <chris.w1gm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Victor,
>> Did you patch and build the screen program?  On the Mac, bratty needs to
>> run under screen using the sc driver.  I run screen and brltty under my
>> user account (no sudo).
>>
>> HTH
>> Chris
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2015, at 10:41 PM, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Cheryl.
>> Thanks so so much for your helpful response and for helping me to
>> pinpoint the issue so quickly.
>> Indeed, all I had to do is to reinstall the command line tools for Xcode
>> and BRLTTY compiled with no issues.
>> I of course had to use a different prefix for the "make install" step
>> because of the new restrictions placed in Mac OS 10.11, but this worked
>> just fine.
>>
>> I am now trying to figure out why all I'm getting from BRLTTY on my
>> Brailliant-32 display is the message "no screen". I know that BRLTTY is
>> working because I am getting beeps when pressing on the display's keys.
>> Back to exploring.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>> Victor
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> First, make sure you installed the latest version of xcode and ran
>>> xcode-select --install
>>> to install the command-line tools. Also open the Xcode application to
>>> make sure you have agreed to license terms and any other components have
>>> installed. I really don't think this is your problem because you would have
>>> other problems besides the one you cite.
>>>
>>> Here is a link to one possible cause and solution I found by googling. I
>>> do not know if this fits your situation or not.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.justskins.com/forums/darwin-what-provides-usr-266802.html
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheryl
>>>
>>> May the words of my mouth
>>> and the meditation of my heart
>>> be acceptable to You, Lord,
>>> my rock and my Redeemer.
>>> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 31, 2015, at 8:45 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110 at icloud.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am not sure what the problem would be. I am compiling and running
>>> brltty (see my recent post) on the latest version of 10.11 and I have
>>> /usr/lib/dylib1.o. You might do some googling and see why you might be
>>> missing this; I will also do this when I have some time to do this.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheryl
>>>
>>> May the words of my mouth
>>> and the meditation of my heart
>>> be acceptable to You, Lord,
>>> my rock and my Redeemer.
>>> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 31, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello listers, and specifically developers of BRLTTY. This may be a
>>> known problem already, but I thought I would report it in case this was not
>>> discussed yet. I just attempted to compile the BRLTTY source code from
>>> Github on Mac OS 10.11.1, however, the process fails right before the
>>> linker is about to step in. It seems that clang cannot find the compiled
>>> object dylib1.o in /usr/lib directory. I was curious if this is already
>>> known and whether someone is looking into this? Thanks a lot and I look
>>> forward to building and using BRLTTY on my Mac soon! Best, Victor
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