[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Problems with making liblouis
- From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 11:20:32 -0700
I keep hearing about others building it I just can not seem to make it work. I
have some experiments I wish to do outside of the braille blaster environment
all I really want is an installer. All this trouble. There has got to be a
better way really.
Commonwealth Braille & Talking Book Cooperative
Greg Kearney, General Manager
605 Robson Street, Suite 850
Vancouver BC V6B 5J3
CANADA
Email: info@xxxxxxxxx
U.S. Address
21908 Almaden Av.
Cupertino, CA 95014
UNITED STATES
Email: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
On May 12, 2014, at 10:57 AM, John J. Boyer <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The problem with liblouisutdml is an old one. It's due to
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH not being set or the pkg-config utility not being
> present. Others have built liblouisutdml on Mac OSX successfully. More
> documentation would certainly help.
>
> I'm wondering, though, why you need to build liblouis, since you have
> BrailleBlaster.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 09:31:47AM -0700, Greg Kearney wrote:
>> Well what I really want is to avoid this whole configure/make/make install
>> process and to just have an installer that puts the various programs and
>> support files into the right places. I could even build such an installer
>> for use if I could just get a set of files to install. As a rule after some
>> fiddling about I get libelous built and installed but always run into
>> trouble with liblouisutdml for example:
>>
>> I build libelous and run the make install. All should be set to go on and
>> build liblouisutdml right? Wrong I get the following which I have no idea at
>> all how to fix.
>>
>>
>> checking for BASE_DEPENDENCIES... configure: error: Package requirements
>> (liblouis, libxml-2.0) were not met:
>>
>> No package 'liblouis' found
>>
>> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>>
>> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS
>> and BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
>> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
>>
>>
>> Commonwealth Braille & Talking Book Cooperative
>> Greg Kearney, General Manager
>> 605 Robson Street, Suite 850
>> Vancouver BC V6B 5J3
>> CANADA
>> Email: info@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>> U.S. Address
>> 21908 Almaden Av.
>> Cupertino, CA 95014
>> UNITED STATES
>> Email: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 12, 2014, at 9:20 AM, David Sweetman <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> For these issues, an Xcode project really wouldn’t solve any problems, it
>>> could only possibly complicate things. The current checkout builds fine for
>>> me on OS X (a091dc), so perhaps what is really needed is improved
>>> documentation on how to build. I think documentation was on Bert’s roadmap
>>> so that may be coming soon.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> On May 12, 2014, at 7:27 AM, Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have cloned the the github version of libelous and did the configure.
>>>> Upon running make it get the following:
>>>>
>>>> gkearney:Liblouis gkearney$ make
>>>> Making all in gnulib
>>>> /bin/sh: /Volumes/Untitled: No such file or directory
>>>> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me what is going on here? We really really really need a
>>>> better way to do this for people who just need the binaries for table
>>>> development. A simple installer, an Xcode project that builds every time
>>>> something other than what is going on now. I don’t believe I have ever
>>>> downloaded a new version without running into problems.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Commonwealth Braille & Talking Book Cooperative
>>>> Greg Kearney, General Manager
>>>> 605 Robson Street, Suite 850
>>>> Vancouver BC V6B 5J3
>>>> CANADA
>>>> Email: info@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>> U.S. Address
>>>> 21908 Almaden Av.
>>>> Cupertino, CA 95014
>>>> UNITED STATES
>>>> Email: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
>>>> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>>>
>>> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
>>> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>>
>> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
>> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
>
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> Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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