[BRLTTY] introduction

[kendell clark]

hi
Speech-dispatcher does in deed come with a package config file. It's
located, at least on my system, in
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/speech-dispatcher.pc. Espeak does as well, but brltty
found espeak.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/03/19 at 13:04 -0500]
>
>> One thing I've just noticed. I just rebuilt our brltty package for
>> sonar. During the configure step, brltty is warning it can't find
>> speech-dispatcher. I'm assuming it needs it's headers. Arch doesn't
>> provide separate header packages like debian and fedora do, but the
>> headers are placed in /usr/include/speech-dispatcher. Is there a way I
>> can help brltty find it so I can set speech-dispatcher as an available
>> driver? 
> There's a way to tell configure that the whole package is somewhere else, but 
> there's no option just for the headers. Does speech-dispatcher come with a 
> pkg-config .pc file? If so, we can update brltty's configure to use it. That, 
> after all, is the best way since it let's the package itself tell others where 
> its various components are.
>
>> The plan is to eventually have brltty use the sd driver as default, so if the 
>> user changes orca settings, brltty will keep up. If that doesn't work out I'll 
>> fall back to the espeak driver. Thanks Kendell Clark
> Makes sense. Again, though, don't add "auto" to the mix as, also for the speech 
> driver, "auto" only works if specified by itself. Just specify the speech 
> drivers that you'd actually like to use.
>