[quoted lines by Anders Holmberg on 2017/08/24 at 21:55 +0200] >Before i upgrade to 5.5 i have a question. >Vinux 5.1 comes with 5.4 and this has some bugs i want to be without. >So do i have to remove the old release before i run the ./configure script and >compile brltty?
No, I strongly recommend against doing that for at least two reasons. One is that I don't believe one should ever mess with packaged files. The otehr is that you should keep the version that comes with the distribution so that you always have a working version to fall back to should the one you build fail for some reason. What I recommend is to use --prefix= when configuring in order to specify some other location. For example: configure --prefix=/brltty/5.5 >Last time i tried to compile 5.5 i did not get it to start. >I guess its because i did not read the README.Startup carefully. >Now i will do another try and see if i can get things to work. The distribution's systemd units for brltty are probably under /usr/lib/systemd/. You should install your modified units under /etc/systemd/. The only thing you should need to change is the ExecStart= path. Note that you need to run "systemctl daemon-reload" after you install your modified units as well as after any time you make changes to them. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | http://Mielke.cc/ Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | The Bible is the very Word of God. _______________________________________________ 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
