Re: Makefile broken; lack of package for decent distros


Subject: Re: Makefile broken; lack of package for decent distros
From: David Chart (linux@dchart.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 17:09:38 CDT


On 27 Oct 2001 13:53:22 -0400, Chris Nehren wrote:
> Hey, I tried to build 0.9.4.1 on a Slackware box, and the makefile
> generated by autogen.sh failed.

Try the diving make. cd to the abi directory in the source tree, and
just type make. (You should clean the tree first -- try 'make realclean'
from the same place.) There is a known bug in automake 1.5.

> 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?

Because AbiWord is an entirely volunteer project, and none of the
volunteers built a tgz of 0.9.4.1.

-- 
David Chart

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