- From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:20:06 +0200
- To: Steve Pothier <pothiers@aries.tucson.saic.com>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
> I'm trying to build amaya on a Linux ppc and am experiencing > difficulties. > > First I tried: > > mkdir -p /swl/amaya-4.3.2/Linux-2.2-ppc > ./configure --prefix=/swl/amaya-4.3.2 --exec-prefix=/swl/amaya-4.3.2/Linux-2.2-ppc > make all As explained in http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/Autoconf.html due to configuration files (like unix-thot.rc) needed by Amaya compilers you have to build the application in a subdirectory of the Amaya hierarchy mkdir Linux-2.2-ppc cd Linux-2.2-ppc ../configure > > FAILED in > make[1]: Entering directory `/swl/tmp/Amaya/annotlib' > System wide unix-thot.rc not found at /swl/tmp/config/unix-thot.rc > External structure HTML > System wide unix-thot.rc not found at /swl/tmp/config/unix-thot.rc > WARNING: cannot open file en-libdialogue > ... > > > > I assumed this meant I needed to install thot. The thot (2.1e) INSTALL > file indicates that amaya and the thoteditor should be extracted into > the thot (library) source tree. Did that and tried building thot > (which the INSTALL says will build amaya and thoteditor). This > failed in lots of places but that's I guess I need to talk to the thot > people about that. > > At this point I'm considering giving up on getting a new Amaya working > on Linux-ppc and using it on a different architecture. (Where it is > very impressive, I might add!) > > -sp- > > > >
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