Build ARCH LINUX package into Debian

SVOX –PICO,

 Build  ARCH LINUX  package into Debian ARM 6/7

Svox – pico is small foot print for test to speech engine which is free to download from

AUR distribution. To compile it at arm 6/7 it requires a patch which is also available to download form AUR site. For more details about this package please read the following link

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/svox-pico-git/?setlang=en

To patch a package is a easy task when the patch is available. This document only the patching way which may be useful for a new linux user.  I explained it step by step .

Step 1. Download tarball of the patch and svox-pico from AUR site which is referenced above.

Step 2. Extract the main package and the patch, you may use tar command to extract.

Step 3. Copy the content of  patch directory into the directory svox package   where you have just extracted. As an example I extracted svox-pico  into pico directory and patch into patch directory.

So, I need to copy the patch (lm.patch) file to this directory as below

       sudo cp /pathtodirectory/patch/lm.patch  /pathtodirectory/svox-picopico/lm.patch

Step 4. Now it is needed to install another library, libtool.

             sudo apt-get install libtool

Step 5. Now it is time to do patch. To do it is required to enter into the directory

            where I have saved package. I have use these command sequentially to build and

            install in debian linux system.

cd /pathtodirectory/svox-picopico/

patch -p2 < ./lm.patch

            ./autogen.sh

./configure --prefix=/usr       

I received output message as

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p

checking for gawk... no

checking for mawk... mawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

……..

when this process is finished it is required to invoke make. It is simple just write make in the console. I receive the following output.

  make

  CC     picoacph.lo

  CC     picoapi.lo

  CC     picobase.lo

  CC     picocep.lo

  CC     picoctrl.lo

…………….

Then I fixed where to install this build package. It should be /usr/lib/arm_version

            export LIB_DIR==/usr/lib/arm-linux-xxx

sudo make LIBDIR=${LIB_DIR} install

make[1]: Entering directory  

 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/lib'

 /bin/bash ./libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   libttspico.la '/usr/lib'

libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libttspico.so.0.0.0 /usr/lib/libttspico.so.0.0.0

libtool: install: (cd /usr/lib && { ln -s -f libttspico.so.0.0.0 libttspico.so.0 || { rm -f libttspico.so.0 && ln -s libttspico.so.0.0.0 libttspico.so.0; }; })

libtool: install: (cd /usr/lib && { ln -s -f libttspico.so.0.0.0 libttspico.so || { rm -f libttspico.so && ln -s libttspico.so.0.0.0 libttspico.so; }; })

libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libttspico.lai /usr/lib/libttspico.la

libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libttspico.a /usr/lib/libttspico.a

libtool: install: chmod 644 /usr/lib/libttspico.a

libtool: install: ranlib /usr/lib/libttspico.a

libtool: finish: PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin" ldconfig -n /usr/lib

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 Step 6. sudoo reboot 

         svox-pico is now installed ,