Bill Fenner :
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > Or possibly it might have but your build system messed me over. I don't
> > trust
> > autoconf as far as I can throw it.
> >
>
> I understand someone's done a conversion to cmake. Does that make you
> happier or vomit
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Or possibly it might have but your build system messed me over. I don't
> trust
> autoconf as far as I can throw it.
>
I understand someone's done a conversion to cmake. Does that make you
happier or vomityer?
Bill
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Bill Fenner :
> Not to mention that "install libperl-dev" means nothing on Solaris, or
> FreeBSD, or MacOS, or other supported systems.
OK, but are you going to let the better be the enemy of the good, or merge that
patch and improve on it based on your experience?
I'm not throwing these doc patc
Bart Van Assche :
> On 03/21/18 19:47, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >>From 2ffbdd9e8f15eb3e3dc985ab3aa0a12d798e4b78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: "Eric S. Raymond"
> >Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:24:40 -0400
> >Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: Fix for build instructions.
> >
> >Mention a prerequisite that w
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 03/21/18 19:47, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
>> - 3) make
>>>
>> + 3) Run make. If the build fails with a complaint that it can't resolve
>> + -lperl, install libperl-dev and try again.
>>
> This should be elaborated further: anoth
On 03/21/18 19:47, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
From 2ffbdd9e8f15eb3e3dc985ab3aa0a12d798e4b78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric S. Raymond"
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:24:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: Fix for build instructions.
Mention a prerequisite that will trip people up under Ubuntu.
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