[quoted lines by Keith Wessel on 2017/02/28 at 08:26 -0600] >While the version of brltty that Centos provides works, it lacks a couple >things.
And, if you're using a laptop on battery power, 4.5 is much less friendly to that battery than 5 is. >First, I can't, for anything, get any sound out of it for alert >tunes. After looking at its dependencies, I noticed it didn't have alsa libs >listed. Could it be that the Centos-distributed version (brltty-4.5-13.el7) >doesn't have any sound support other than the beeper device? Do ldd on the brltty executable to see which libraries it's using. >So, I tried the brltty-5.4 RPM available for download from brltty.com. I >really wanted to move to Brltty V5, anyway. I run it at home on a Gentoo >system, and I like a number of the changes including the new button mappings >for my PowerBraille 80. Sadly, it's looking for, among other things, libicu >4.9. Centos 7 comes with 5.0. Sigh. Best, really, to build brltty for yourself. That way, you can specifically configure it for the system you have. >Next stop, the source RPM. Try to build my own. I attempt to add the many >dependencies required to build the RPM: 23 that I didn't yet have. However, >one can't be met: gcc-java. It's not available in RHEL and Centos 7 that I >can see. You can configure with --disable-java-bindings. That shouldn't cause any problems. Again, though, doing that may require a non-RPM build. Get the tarball - not the rpm - and build from that. >Can anyone point me to a binary RPM of Brltty for Centos 7 that has ALSA >support for PCM alert tunes? Or perhaps the Centos one does and I'm just not >configuring something right? I tried many times this week to make it work. I myself am not familiar with CentOS 7. Maybe someone else on this list is. >Alternatively, can anyone make suggestions for building the srpm? What >changes might I need to make to the configure command-line to not need >gcc-java, As mentioned above: Build from the tarball, and configure with --disable-java-bindings. >and would might I lose if I left that out? Only the functinality of anything that relies on the Java bindings for BrlAPI. I don't think there are any major public apps that do. >Would that hurt any of the Gnome/Orca brlapi integration? No. They use the Python bindings. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.org/ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.com/mailman/listinfo/brltty
