[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Problem building liblouistdml2.3.0
- From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:35:15 +0800
I did a new compile make and install of liblouis but where is can not find
Lou-translate nor can I run it from the command line. Something is not right.
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Greg Kearney
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
On 24/11/2012, at 11:35 AM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> May be its time for me really to get my teeth into scons, I know NVDA uses
> scons and they get that to build liblouis. Also scons uses the various
> platform's compiler, with the scons script being fairly platform neutral.
>
> I'll have to try and make time for it, but at the moment spare time seems a
> little limited.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 24/11/2012 01:36, John J. Boyer wrote:
>> What is broken is pkgconfig. The PKGCONFIG_PATH has to be set correctly.
>> Apparently the commands I gave didn't do it. I don't know why Apple
>> doesn't provide pkgconfig. In the terminal, try typing the command
>>
>> whereis lou_translate
>>
>> This will show where this program is installed. It will give me a better
>> idea of how to set the path.
>>
>> I agree that the configure, make make install stiff is overly
>> complicated. It would be nice to have somethign like Java's Ant.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:57:15AM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
>>> I am not certain why liblouisutdml is not building for you, personally I
>>> find the make stuff complicated and hard to work with and I am a
>>> software developer.
>>>
>>> One thing I did notice, your line for checking the packages would not
>>> find liblouis, grep xml will find lines containing xml, so liblouis
>>> would not show up. You would need to change grep xml to grep louis to
>>> search for liblouis.
>>>
>>> What does
>>> pkg-config --list-all | grep louis
>>> give? If that says liblouis is installed then it seems as if the
>>> liblouisutdml build stuff is broken.
>>>
>>> Michael Whapples
>>> On 23/11/2012 23:15, Greg Kearney wrote:
>>>> OK for some reason even after doing a new compile and install pkconfig
>>>> will not find the libouis materials here is what I get:
>>>>
>>>> pkg-config --list-all | grep xml
>>>> libxml-2.0 libXML - libXML library version2.
>>>>
>>>> I have always been concerned about the complexity of getting all of
>>>> this working. I'm a librarian not a computer programer and while I
>>>> have better than average skills for my trade I know that many
>>>> potential users would never be able to handle this. It's driving me crazy!
>>>>
>>>> So here is my offer. If someone will send me all the files in the
>>>> correct folder structure for an intel Mac I will build a proper
>>>> installer that will permit mear mortals to install and be able to use
>>>> liblouis. I know that BrailleBaster holds out a future hot for this
>>>> but we have people who really just need this now.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the steps I have followed so far with no results.
>>>>
>>>> 1. made sure I had pkg-config install and running. I do the following:
>>>> set PKGCONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
>>>> export PKGCONFIG_PATH
>>>>
>>>> pkg-config --list-all | grep xml
>>>> libxml-2.0 libXML - libXML library version2.
>>>>
>>>> Note that it says I have libxml-2.0
>>>>
>>>> 2. downloaded the current versions of liblouis , liblouis-2.5.1
>>>> and liblouisutdml, liblouisutdml-2.3.0
>>>>
>>>> 3. configure make and make install liblouis. Everything went fine.
>>>>
>>>> Again I run:
>>>>
>>>> pkg-config --list-all | grep xml
>>>> libxml-2.0 libXML - libXML library version2.
>>>>
>>>> Note I still do not have the liblouis package. Why is that? So I go on
>>>>
>>>> 4. configure liblouisutdml-2.3.0 I get the following:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The fact of the matter is I am willing to build a proper macOS
>>>> installer that will put everything it it place that will permit people
>>>> to install and test liblouis and use it but I need to have all the
>>>> files compiled and ready to install sent to me. There is only so many
>>>> hours int eh day and this is just driving me crazy every time I have
>>>> to go through all this. I need to produce Braille here.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help me?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
>>>> Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
>>>> PO Box 101, Victoria Park WA 6979 | 61 Kitchener Ave, Victoria Park WA
>>>> 6100
>>>> Tel: 08 9311 8246 | Fax: 08 9361 8696 | www.guidedogswa.com.au
>>>> <http://www.guidedogswa.com.au>
>>>> Tel: 307-224-4022 (North America)
>>>> Email: greg.kearney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:greg.kearney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Email: gkearney@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> On 23/11/2012, at 6:43 PM, "John J. Boyer"
>>>> <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> exprot PKGCONFIG_PATH
>
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> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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