Subject: Re: Makefile broken; lack of package for decent distros
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 20:04:55 CDT
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Chris Nehren wrote:
> Hey, I tried to build 0.9.4.1 on a Slackware box, and the makefile
> generated by autogen.sh failed. Then I looked for a .tgz, found only RPMS.
> What's up here? Why aren't there packages for distros that don't suffer
> from RPM?
>
Very simple. No one has made one.
If people feel the need to make a *.tgz they should make it. We're all
just a bunch of volenteers here. The old web page misrepresented what
abiword currently is. The new one describes us much better. All the
developers who on abiword volenteer their own time. We all make decisions
about how that time is best spent. Making binaries and verifing them takes
time.
That said, the make files generated by autogen.sh unfortunately don't work
for 0.9.4.1 for many distros.
You might have more luck with the diving makefile system. Just unpack the
tarball into a fresh directory and do a
make UNIX_CAN_BUILD_STATIC=0 install
in the abi directory. You'll get a gtk binary in ../AbiSuite/bin
for a gnome build do:
make ABI_OPT_GNOME=1 UNIX_CAN_BUILD_STATIC=0 install
Cheers
Martin
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