Hi Am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2005 04:22 schrieb brandon: > > if they are unclear or not. So, if someone could explain and/or point to a > primer I would be grateful > > 1. When it says "./configure && make" > > What does that mean exactly. It says call the script which is located in the to directory of the unpacked sources. And after the script has completed succeffully call make to build the program
As the actual directory is and schould not be contained in the PATH variable (security reasons) you call the configure script with ./ ( short for the actual directory/path) preceeded. The && means logic AND. You could have typed the above in the follwoing way too prompt>./configure prompt>make But the && version has the advantage that if configure fails make is never called. While in the two line version it may be that configure fails at top of a long list of tests which you than would have to scroll back to check if it is safe to call make. > I understand that I'm compiling from source, and I > do have the gcc compiler already on this server but am I supposed to download > the aspell tar.gz into a specific directory before compiling? No you don't as the directory you unpack the sources into is only the temporary build directory. > > 2. After compiling do i have tell the program where to install? > No you simply call make install to ensure taht the program is installed into the proper directory. By default this is /usr/local/bin for binarys and other dubtrees of usr local like share lib include ... If you want to change the installation base directory eg your home directory you have to do that by calling ./configure --prefix=/home/<MyUserName> For how to change default directories for installing different parts of the program call ./configure --help > 3. When do I add a dictionary, before or after install? after as you need aspell and helper programs from aspell distribution to properly build the dictionary. > The instructions say > have to "make a path", but what does that mean? cd to /usr/local/share if you have installed aspell in usr local and call mkdir -p aspell/dicts if you want to install the dictionary in the dicts subdirectory of aspell the -p option of mkdir (make directory) ensures that the aspell directory is created prior to the dicts within aspell if aspell does not exist. mor uppon mkdir see info mkdir or man mkdir > Yeah, I came from the GUI world, so be nice :) Isn't there any unix beginners guide arround on your site does it tell anything about directories or even about mkdir, cd, ls, dir, touch, rm and other tiny little programs or did you by a unix/linux vserver for your home business. Just asking ;-) cu Xris _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
