Re: installing the tar.gz

From: Francis James Franklin (f.j.franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 05:08:41 EDT

  • Next message: Jost Ammon: "Re: installing the tar.gz"

    We forgot to run autogen.sh before releasing the tar ball - sorry.
    Please type "./autogen.sh" in the abi directory - you will need to have
    autoconf and automake installed.

    Regards, Frank

    On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 09:38 AM, Jost Ammon wrote:

    > I have to correct my yesterday's take on installing AbiWord on linux.
    > I did not compile, I tried to install rpm packages, the difficulty of
    > which made me install a 1.0.2 version that I got from
    > http://www.usr-local-bin.org/
    >
    > So I try to compile 1.0.6, the stable version that Dom has recommended
    > to use. After having extracted the tar.gz to the install directory I
    > miss a configure file:
    >
    > giosetti@linux:~/autosave/abiword/abiword-1.0.6/abi> ls -l
    > insgesamt 192
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 3090 Jun 17 2001 BUILD
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 1618 Feb 5 2002
    > BUILD-automake-1.5.TXT
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 14194 Apr 30 2002 BUILD.TXT
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 6471 Okt 15 2001 BiDiReadme.txt
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 17980 Apr 15 2002 COPYING
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 557 Okt 21 1998 COPYRIGHT.TXT
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 12732 Okt 1 2002 CREDITS.TXT
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 3617 Jun 21 2002 GNUmakefile.am
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 3935 Jan 28 2002 Makefile
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 1248 Nov 16 1999 README.TXT
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 654 Mär 5 2001 TODO.TXT
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 84 Feb 15 2002 UnixFonts.txt
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 87 Nov 23 2001 UnixLocales.txt
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 492 Aug 2 1999 VERSION.TXT
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 1425 Nov 11 2000 abi2po.pl
    > drwxr-xr-x 3 giosetti users 4096 Mai 30 11:38 ac-helpers
    > -rwxr-xr-x 1 giosetti users 1439 Mär 25 2002 autogen.sh
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 14829 Apr 11 11:59 configure.ac
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 16063 Apr 11 11:59 configure.in
    > drwxr-xr-x 3 giosetti users 4096 Mai 30 11:38 docs
    > -rwxr-xr-x 1 giosetti users 5451 Okt 25 2001 dumpstrings.pl
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 5528 Jun 25 2002 includes.mk
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 2470 Feb 6 2001 mpw-build
    > drwxr-xr-x 2 giosetti users 4096 Mai 30 11:38 po
    > -rw-r--r-- 1 giosetti users 2177 Dez 3 2001 po2abi.pl
    > drwxr-xr-x 5 giosetti users 4096 Mai 30 11:38 shots
    > drwxr-xr-x 11 giosetti users 4096 Mai 30 11:41 src
    > drwxr-xr-x 3 giosetti users 4096 Mai 30 11:42 test
    > drwxr-xr-x 3 giosetti users 4096 Mai 30 11:42 user
    >
    > I have configure.in and ~.ac, but no configure. Do I need at this
    > point certain arguments to run configure? Or how should I proceed to
    > start compilation?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Jost
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