Subject: Re: Makefile broken; lack of package for decent distros
From: Chris Nehren (apeiron@prophecy.dyndns.org)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 16:12:56 CDT
> 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.
Yes, I recognize this. Once I do get Abi 0.9.4.1 to work for Slackware,
I'll generate a tgz for it, so others don't have to go through this.
> That said, the make files generated by autogen.sh unfortunately don't work
> for 0.9.4.1 for many distros.
Indeed. For which distros does the autogen work?
> 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
OK, thanks for the info, sir. But a question. What's the difference
between a gtk build and a gnome build? I thought they were the same thing?
Regards
Chris
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