Try out the attached patch that allows you to rebuild tesseract and get
a working copy (complete with the tessdata directory). I've also fixed
the powerpc build in this patch so that it doesn't segfault.
Bryan
diff -ruN tesseract-1.02.orig/ccutil/host.h tesseract-1.02/ccutil/host.h
--- tesseract-1.02.orig/ccutil/host.h 2006-09-07 22:04:06.000000000 +0000
+++ tesseract-1.02/ccutil/host.h 2006-11-24 22:06:05.000000000 +0000
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
*/
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "config_auto.h"
-#ifdef MOTOROLA_BYTE_ORDER
+#ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
#define __MOTO__ // Big-endian.
#endif
#endif
diff -ruN tesseract-1.02.orig/ccutil/mainblk.cpp
tesseract-1.02/ccutil/mainblk.cpp
--- tesseract-1.02.orig/ccutil/mainblk.cpp 2006-06-16 22:17:05.000000000
+0000
+++ tesseract-1.02/ccutil/mainblk.cpp 2006-11-24 22:03:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -99,6 +99,14 @@
if (m_print_variables)
print_variables(stdout); /*print them all */
+ #ifdef TESSDATA_PREFIX
+ #define _STR(a) #a
+ #define _XSTR(a) _STR(a)
+ datadir = _XSTR(TESSDATA_PREFIX);
+ #undef _XSTR
+ #undef _STR
+ #endif
+
datadir += m_data_sub_dir; /*data directory */
#ifdef __UNIX__
diff -ruN tesseract-1.02.orig/configure tesseract-1.02/configure
--- tesseract-1.02.orig/configure 2006-10-04 20:48:51.000000000 +0000
+++ tesseract-1.02/configure 2006-11-24 22:07:56.000000000 +0000
@@ -1326,7 +1326,6 @@
-tesseract
ac_aux_dir=
for ac_dir in config $srcdir/config; do
diff -ruN tesseract-1.02.orig/debian/rules tesseract-1.02/debian/rules
--- tesseract-1.02.orig/debian/rules 2006-11-24 22:01:57.000000000 +0000
+++ tesseract-1.02/debian/rules 2006-11-24 22:04:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
-CFLAGS = -Wall -g
+CFLAGS = -Wall -g -DTESSDATA_PREFIX=/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/
ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
CFLAGS += -O0
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
config.status: configure
dh_testdir
- ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
--prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info
CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,defs"
+ ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
--prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info
CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" CXXFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,defs"
build: build-stamp
build-stamp: config.status
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@
dh_clean -k
dh_installdirs
$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tesseract-ocr
+ mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/tesseract-ocr/usr/share/tesseract-ocr
+ cp -a tessdata $(CURDIR)/debian/tesseract-ocr/usr/share/tesseract-ocr
# Build architecture-independent files here.
binary-indep: build install
