Package Details: orca-git 50.0.r67.g762cd3a8b-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/orca-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: orca-git
Description: Screen reader for individuals who are blind or visually impaired (development version)
Upstream URL: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
Licenses: LGPL-2.1-or-later
Groups: gnome
Conflicts: orca
Provides: orca
Submitter: sholmes88
Maintainer: alex19EP
Last Packager: alex19EP
Votes: 14
Popularity: 0.024032
First Submitted: 2009-12-04 22:29 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-03-23 11:52 (UTC)

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francesco commented on 2026-03-23 10:09 (UTC) (edited on 2026-03-23 11:48 (UTC) by francesco)

Hello there,

After the latest commit adding initial MathCAT support, the package fails to build with the following output:

Program cargo found: YES (/usr/bin/cargo) ERROR: Subproject mathcat-py is buildable: NO

orca/meson.build:69:2: ERROR: Automatic wrap-based subproject downloading is disabled

This happens because arch-meson passes -Dwrap_mode=nodownload, so meson can't fetch the mathcat-py subproject automatically.

The fix involves:
- Adding rust to makedepends (needed to compile mathcat-py) - Adding the mathcat-py repo as a second git source
- Adding a prepare() to symlink the subproject into place and apply orca's patch files from subprojects/packagefiles/mathcat-py/
- Changing arch from ('any') to ('x86_64') since mathcat-py compiles a native .so

Full working PKGBUILD here: https://gist.github.com/francescotissera1211/1cbc4f3fa4555f95e7498d227b70aa82

francesco commented on 2024-02-24 12:22 (UTC)

Hello. I was wondering if this pkgbuild is taking the newly added spiel speech server into account when building. If it isn't, i believe it'd be useful to add it for testers that use it. Thanks.

alex19EP commented on 2024-02-02 13:48 (UTC)

hello @pvagner I think it's already in depends. This package is used quite a lot, so I don't see any point in making it optional.

pvagner commented on 2024-02-02 12:45 (UTC)

Dear @alex19EP, Can you please add python-psutil to the optdepends? Since orca 46 it's used for reporting battery and CPU status scripts.

alex19EP commented on 2018-11-16 16:13 (UTC)

package updated.

hamster commented on 2018-10-18 13:22 (UTC)

Cloning from git does not works. Changing to HTTPS url solves the problem.

sholmes88 commented on 2015-06-28 18:33 (UTC)

Package moved to new AUR.

sholmes88 commented on 2013-11-13 14:20 (UTC)

Updated dependencies and versioning to be compatible with gnome 3.10. Also added dynamic version function to PKGBUILD so the version updates whenever you build the package.

sholmes88 commented on 2012-08-27 04:39 (UTC)

Set the branch to gnome-3-6 so it is pulling from git with python2 support. If we try and use the python3 version of orca, you would need to update at-spi2-core to version 2.5.2 or greater. Currently Arch is using at-spi2-core 2.4.2 even with the testing repository enabled. Also found it necessary to add yelp-tools as a make dependency to build successfully.

<deleted-account> commented on 2011-08-06 21:01 (UTC)

==> Starting make... Cloning into /var/abs/local/yaourtbuild/orca-git/src/orca-build... done. which: no gnome-autogen.sh in (/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/android-sdk/tools:/usr/share/java/apache-ant/bin:/opt/java/bin:/opt/java/db/bin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/opt/qt/bin) You need to install gnome-common ==> BŁĄD: Wystąpił błąd w build(). Przerywam... Error: Makepkg was unable to build orca-git package.

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