[BRLTTY] cannot install brltty 5.4 latest git on gentoo

Chris Brannon chris at the-brannons.com
Sat Jul 23 18:05:17 EDT 2016


Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

> So from 0.8 to just before 0.8.4 it's not backward compatible? If so, I'd say 
> that that's a bug that they fixed in 0.8.4.

Agreed.

> Now that I'm looking at it, the Speech Dispatcher .pc file I was sent to test 
> with is for 0.8.3, and contains:
>
>    includedir=${prefix}/include/speech-dispatcher

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that it was patched by one of the
distros.  I just downloaded 0.8.3 and did ./configure, and I got a .pc
file with only ${prefix}/include.

-- Chris


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