Thanks :) I will report back with my efforts.

In , Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:55 AM, aashiks wrote:

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Thanks :) I will report back with my efforts.

Additionally, considering these are orphans, if you can report success or any changes here, I'm sure we can get some developer to go ahead and rebuild these packages (assuming they won't be able to do rigorous testing due to the fact that we have no developers who use scim for their native languages).

Hi Aaron, I'm using latest m17n* packages (built from my local PKGBUILD) with Emacs (CVS) without any issues. I'm interested in sharing and maintaining them, if anyone else is not. Can you tell me how do I post the PKGBUILD for inclusion in repositories ? Thanks -- Ashish SHUKLA

aashiks writes:

Hi,

Hi,

If you can share the PKGBUILD it will be helpful. My problem issue ( inputting Malayalam ) was solved because there was a scim-tables version of the specific inpput scheme i was looking for. I had to get the latest scim-tables ( 0.5.8 ) for it to work. I had to create a patch due to a bug , but i now have a working package now. I am attaching the patch and PKGBUILD for scim-tables 0.5.8 with this. please do check

Please checkout the attached PKGBUILD scripts. In case you use Emacs (CVS) from Arch's repos and having problem rendering Indic scripts, I've created a custom PKGBUILD for that too.

Regards, Ashik S

HTH -- Ashish SHUKLA

Hi all, I checked the PKGBUILD scripts that Asish sent. Both scripts work correctly. The m17n-lib PKGBUILD script is correct and it correctly shows a dependency for libotf. But I couldn't find the libotf package in pacman. So I ended up using the libotf-cvs (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16709) from AUR. This libotf packages is installed as libotf-cvs, so i had to modify the PKGBUILD script for m17n-lib to use libotf-cvs instaed of libotf. So I think if the m17n-lib package has to be included in extra/community repos, the libotf package should go in also. The m17n-db script works correctly. If the m17n-libs are included, then I think it would be a very good idea to include the m17-contrib packages from AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22049) also, since this includes m17n support for some widely used indic languages . I was specifically looking for Malayalam which got recently included in m17n-contrib. Thanks all for your help. Awaiting feed back from everyone. regards Aashik S

Thanks for the libotf PKGBUILD. But as I mentioned, there is already one in AUR ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16709) . I will check this one out. i found what i was looking for in the scim-tables package. I was looking for an input method called Swanalekha. it is there in both m17n and scim- tables. I have what i need now. But since we started this we will finish it off. :) Will check the script and report back.

aashiks wrote:

Hi all,

@Asish , I was looking for input methods

The PKGBUILD for libotf works well. So we now have PKGBUILDs for the current versions of :

libotf m17n-lib m17n-db scim-tables

If you are confirming these packages are all working, I can push the updates to the repos under the understanding that I really can not test them. But given the versions in the repos appear to be broken anyway, things can not get much worse... To make it easier for me, can someone either reply to this or email me directly with all four PKGBUILDs attached. Allan

aashiks wrote:

Hi,

The four PKGBUILDS are attached.

Thanks, I will need scim-tables-0.5.8-header.patch too. Allan

Hi, These packages a built and uploaded for i686. Wait for you mirror to sync and then install them. I remove the skim makedepends from scim-tables as skim is no longer in the repos and I could not get it to build (it could be possible but I do not have time to really hunt down the problem). Let me know if this breaks anything (other than skim support...). Cheers, Allan