Matthew Talbert wrote: > Your message got posted.
Yes. I retried after posting it here, while I had the content in my paste buffer... and the forums were back from being "down for maintenance" -- pretty quick maintenance, it must have been :) > I'm guessing he doesn't have sudo. OK. It is installed on both crosswire.org and on my Fedora 10 VM here... but if he really doesn't have it, he can figure out from the comment what to use instead (su -c or whatever he prefers) do, if he is someone capable of using a source tarball, I would hope :) > And shouldn't configure be checking for zlib? I'm almost sure it > checks somewhere, but I think it doesn't abort the configure if it > fails. Agreed 100%, but that won't help him right now. The SWORD configure script seems to be very lenient about missing required (or almost-required?) stuff. I noticed that some months back, but decided to just live with it, because I thought if I mentioned it, someone would probably suggest that I fix it :) > He's been using usrinst.sh His forum post describing the issue reads: "The ./configure command went just fine, ..." which sure doesn't read as though he was running ./usrinst.sh to me. Perhaps I misunderstood. > I don't think this explains why sword allows to configure successfully > in the case of missing zlib. Agreed again. But was he (or were you) really looking for an explanation of potential bugs in SWORD's configure script, or did he just want to successfully build SWORD on his local machine? I assumed the latter, and provided a possible solution that, as far as I can tell, should work for him. The subsequent meta-discussion about how to avoid this kind of issue in future should probably wait until he has actually successfully compiled and installed SWORD :) FWIW, I'm installing a Fedora 11 VM right now, doing a minimal install with no optional package sets selected, and I'll go through what I need to do to reach the point where I can compile and install SWORD, and document the result. This kind of info should probably be in the INSTALL file and/or on the Crosswire wiki, for both RPM-based and .deb based Linuxes, incidentally, ready for beginning SWORD developers/compilers to find and use. At least until we have fairly current .deb *amd* RPM packages of SWORD available :) Jonathan _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
