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[Tim Cross <theophilusx AT gmail.com>]

There is a small 'trick' I find very useful on Linux for when trying to
work out what dependencies are required in order to build some package
from source.

Both apt (Debian based systems) and dnf/rpm (Red Hat/Fedora based
distros) have an option to get the build dependencies for a package. For
DNF it is builddep e.g. dnf builddep emacspeak will list build
dependencies as defined for the distro verison of emacspeak. For
Debian/Ubuntu, I think it is apt build-dep or something similar.

I find this trick very useful for making it easier to get dependencies
when building from source. For example, I use this in order to install all
the emacs dependencies so that I can build emacs from source. As most
distributions also include an emacspeak package, it works for emacspeak
as well. The good thing is that because emacspeak build dependnecies
change rarely, even an older distro version of emacspeak will generally
give you the dependencies you need for a current build/install.

Sorry, don't have an answer for macOS, especially as I don't run it
anymore!

HTH

Tim

"Parham Doustdar" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> 
writes:

> Ah yes, I figured. This is a virtual machine, so in this instance I can 
> reset it and try
> again and make sure my steps are complete, but I imagine it would have to 
> be a community
> effort to keep that document up to date with all the different distress and 
> such popping
> up all the time.
> Okay great, I’ll start documenting what I’m installing on Ubuntu. My Mac 
> environment is
> already set up, sadly, but if anyone can install Emacspeak on a Mac with 
> nothing set up,
> that’d be awesome.
> Thanks!
>> On 2 Jan 2024, at 16:53, T.V Raman <raman AT google.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, write it up -- would help.
>> 
>> It's not easy to cover every scenario and once upon a time, sox was
>> present on all linux systems. 
>> 
>> Parham Doustdar writes:
>>> Perfect, thanks! Is there a reason the repo doesn't have a list of 
>>> dependencies? If
>>> it's just a matter of time and priorities, I can go ahead and write one 
>>> up and share
>>> here to be incorporated. I just want to make sure that it's not because 
>>> of something
>>> I'm overlooking.
>>> Thanks!
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 2, 2024, at 15:58, T.V Raman <raman AT google.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Install sox
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "Parham Doustdar" (via emacspeak Mailing List) writes:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I'm having an issue and I wonder if it's an eSpeak server issue, or 
>>>>> something missing in my environment.
>>>>> So, this is an Ubuntu machine, where I've installed Emacs and 
>>>>> Emacspeak, with
>>>>> espeak-ng and espeak-ng-devel, mplayer, and tcl.
>>>>> However, even though Emacspeak generates speech with no issues, it 
>>>>> doesn't play
>>>>> tones, for example for an empty line.
>>>>> Am I missing a dependency, or is this a known issue?
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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