[Xastir] Festival

[Tom Robson]

Thanks Curt:  This may be of interest to other users trying to install 
festival.  I used the files from the CSTR site version 1.4.2.  Perhaps the 
latest 1.4.3 has changed.  A Sym link solves  the problem.

...73 Tom

On February 16, 2003 01:59 am, you wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Tom Robson wrote:
> > I reinstalled festival & speech tools in the home directory.
> > The executable file still ended up in /home/..../festival/bin
> > as it did when I previously had it installed in /usr/local
> > It did not end in usr/bin or usr/local/bin.
> >
> > It does work properly if I use a sym link.
> >
> > Is there a way to install the festival executable in /usr/local/bin with
> > something like <make install <some option>.   I looked in the make
> > install info and could not see anything, but it is hard to interpet some
> > of the options. The festival docs, as far as I could see, said nothing
> > about it.
>
> I did some checking here.  Looks like I had trouble installing
> Festival from sources way back when, so I found some RPM's that
> installed it properly into /usr/bin.
>
> I really don't want to get into the habit of supporting non-standard
> install locations for the extra libraries Xastir can work with.
> Better to get the package fixed and/or move the package pieces
> or install symlinks.
>
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