Subject: Re: Makefile broken; lack of package for decent distros
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 20:23:10 CDT
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Chris Nehren wrote:
> > 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?
He He :-) I feel I'm back in the clasroom. Please call me Martin.
The gnome build has lots of extra features for people who have the gnome
libraries. Like drag and drop into abiword from nautilus or gmc, beeping
sounds, icons on menu's, a really cool colour dialog on the toolbar,
clipart and other stuff.
Cheers
Martin
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