On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:49:18AM +1000, Scott Smedley wrote: > > > * GNU make is needed to build it. > > I'm so glad someone is helping on this - I find the build system > complicated.
It *is* complicated. As a rule of thumb, always run $ make distcheck when you work on the installation process. By eliminating the errors you can learn a lot about how automake works. And don't hesitate to ask if you don't understand something. The distcheck target does the following: * Generate the tarball. * Unpack the tarball. * Build and install the tarball with separate source, build and install directories. It write protects the directories during build steps when they are not allowed to be written. * Deinstall and check that everything is removed. Common errors are that the Makefile tried to create a file in the source directory and that files are left in the install directory after "make uninstall". It's difficult to understand from the error messages though. The autoconf/automake documentation is also very good: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/ http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/ And there used to be the "autobook", but it's no longer available as postscript, only as a paper copy and html files. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt (at) gmx.de
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