we're still tinkering with static & dynamic issues in the makefiles
as we try to get binary releases up to snuff...
> Then it compiles nicely and I get a linux .. bla bla dir but I dont get
> a dist dir as I did in 0.5.5 what might be the cause?
with 0.7.0 we build everything into abi/src/$os_..._{obj,dbg}/{bin,obj...}
with the executables and a 'canonical' layout of the associated files
(we're still tinkering with this too). what was
abi/dist/$os_.../bin/AbiWord[.exe]
is now in abi/src/$os.../bin. the 'dist' directory is where we'll put
the distribution files (*.tar.gz, *.deb, *.rpm, ...) when you do a
'make distribution'. a plain 'make' just builds does the compile and
canonical layout. we didn't have time to finish a 'make install' target
that would do a local install from the canonical layout without going
thru the packaging stuff -- but we will shortly.
sorry for the confusion and hope that this helps clarify things,
jeff