You are welcome Ishe.
I tried what you posted and it worked.
However as I checked I used the same source archive emacspeak-58.0.tar.bz2 to
build the package for Slint so was still puzzled.
I then rebuilt the package and installed it and... It worked, so I uploaded it
this "new" package on the repository. As mentioned in the ChangeLog:
Tuesday 14 November 2023
emacspeak-58.0-x86_64-slint.txz: Rebuilt.
Please try it. Does it work for you too?
Have a good day,
Didier
Le 14/11/2023 à 09:55, Ishe Chinyoka (chinyoka.consultant) a écrit :
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Thanks Didier for checking this out.
However, after trying this same procedure on Arch, I have come to the
conclusion that Emacspeak may have a bug. If you run it from its
site-wide installation in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak, it fails
to start. This may be due to some permissions we may not be aware
of.
This morning, I downloaded the emacspeak-58.0.tar.bz2 from the Github
page via wget and after
tar -xjf emacspeak-58.0.tar.bz2
mv emacspeak-58.0/ ~/opt/emacspeak
I then ran make in the emacspeak directory and copied the line that
appeared after the compilation about the (load-file
"/home/ishe/opt/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el") into my
~/.emacs.d/initiate.el and it worked.
So right now, emacspeak works on Slint but only if one gets the Version
58 in bz2 format.
Thanks once again for confirming that something may be wrong with
Emacspeak. We hope the issue may be fixed upstream by Dr. TV Rahman.
Have a good day,
Ishe
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 02:11 PM Didier Spaier <didier@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Iche and all.
I am puzzled.
after having typed in Slint 15.0:
switch-on emacspeak
tying emacs does start it but without speech and with this message:
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading
‘/home/didier/.emacs’:
Symbol's function definition is void: make-closure
To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with
the ‘--debug-init’ option to view a complete error backtrace
(message ended above)
I have checked that ~/.emacs does contain the expected line:
(load-file "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el")
I have typed:
emacs --debug-init but am unable to decipher the output/ Maybe some emacs
user
more knowledgeable can help?
Additionally doing the same in Slint 14.2.1 works, with teh same line
in ~/.emacs
Maybe this is due to the software versions that differ, I will need some
time to
investigate.
Meanwhile maybe someone else will have a clue?
Cheers,
Didier
Le 13/11/2023 à 12:18, Ishe Chinyoka (chinyoka.consultant) a écrit :
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Hi Didier and all,
I successfully installed Slint on my HP G250 machine. While other
programs are working fine, there seems to be a problem with
Emacspeak. Typing:
switch-on emacspeak
and trying to launch emacs, nothing happens. So I am forced to use
speechd-el, which I suspect works because it uses the Speech-dispatcher
for synthesizer.
Could you have any idea why Emacspeak does not work? Anyone using emacs
can help as to how to fix this. In the meantime, I am contemplating to
just download the Emacspeak from the Github and run it from my home
directory.
TIA,
---
Ishe
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