[BRLTTY] Honor distribution LDFLAGS when building drivers

Jaroslav Skarvada jskarvad at redhat.com
Tue May 29 03:45:47 EDT 2018



----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, 28 May 2018, Jaroslav Skarvada wrote:
> 
> > OK, thanks for info, please provide me the patch / commit link once
> > the feature is ready. FYI Tomas has just started working on the dracut
> > module
> 
> While talking of Fedora...  It seems that the version of BRLTTY built by
> Fedora does not include ALSA support. This means that the sound effects
> that BRLTTY provide are unavailable on systems that no longer have the
> legacy PC squeaker.
> 
Thanks, I fixed it in rawhide and Fedora 28.

> It doesn't build the "en" (eSpeak-ng) speech driver either. Only the
> "es" (eSpeak) driver is built, but eSpeak has been unmaintained for a
> while, and it has bugs that crashes BRLTTY with it eventually.
> 
The espeak-ng support has been provided by brltty-espeak-ng package since
Fedora 28.

Feel free to open Fedora bugzilla next time

thanks & regards

Jaroslav


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