Subject: Re: Makefile broken; lack of package for decent distros
From: Felipe Gasper (fgasper@uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 18:05:45 CDT
Yeah, I had the same problem- I basically went in and hacked the scripts
to produce two shared versions instead of a shared and a static. I've had
no problems thus far. Using Slack 8, gcc 2.95.3, glibc 2.2.3.
-Felipe Gasper
On 27 Oct 2001, David Chart wrote:
> 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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