Greg Hellings wrote:
I just updated to the latest SWORD svn and ran autogen.sh and
usrinst.sh. Forgetting that I was in a fresh install of Ubuntu, I
didn't think to manually install g++, so I have no C++ compiler on my
system. Nevertheless, the configure script simply noted this and
moved on, completing the configuration process without so much as a
complaint. Should this be considered a bug, or simply a silly PEBKAC
issue?
There is something odd going on here... a fresh default install of
Ubuntu should not have had autotools installed either :) So autogen.sh
should have failed...
Incidentally (as you probably already know), doing
sudo apt-get install build-essential
should get you g++ and other basic development tools installed on any
Debian or Ubuntu system -- you probably do not want to install g++
manually, you should install build-essential and let it install g++ for
you, so you also get a few other important things, like make and libc6-dev .
While I think about it: if there is a goal of making initial SWORD
development setup really easy, we could consider adding a few lines to
autogen.sh that notices if it is running on Ubuntu/Debian and does the
sudo-apt-get install build-essential for you if necessary, and likewise
notices if you are on a Fedora/RHEL/CentOS machine and does the
equivalent (yum install ...) . This kind of approach would take care of
a large percentage of Linux development platforms.
Jonathan
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