- From: John Summerfield <summer@OS2.ami.com.au>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 11:48:24 +0800
- To: www-lib@w3.org
I checked out libwww yesterday (our time), and after some adventures, I'm using this script to build it: #!/bin/bash -x CONF=../configure BUILDDIR=`pwd`/build INSTALLDIR=$HOME/libwww [ -n "$1" ] && \ { rm -rf /tmp/w3library mkdir /tmp/w3library gzip -dc $1 | tar x -C /tmp/w3library || exit $? CONF=./configure BUILDDIR=/tmp/w3library/libwww } export PATH=/opt/egcs3/bin:$PATH cd ${BUILDDIR} perl config/winConfigure.pl || exit $? aclocal || exit $? autoheader || exit $? automake || exit $? autoconf || exit $? rm -rf build [ -d ${BUILDDIR} ] || mkdir ${BUILDDIR} cd ${BUILDDIR} ${CONF} --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}/usr --with-gnu-ld --with-regex --with-zlib [ -n "$1" ] || sleep 40 make || exit $? make install The result is that I get a bunch of libraries, headers executables in ~/libwww/usr. But not a single html file. The docs I have to hand describe the bootstrap process, but it does not go so far as to mention how to install it. btw I'm not happy with READMEs etc that point me to a www location and contain no other information; getting the info from the www 1 Isn't something I would do until I already have the package 2 Costs users more money to go and get - a lot of people do not have free phone calls, and a lot of people pay by the minute'hour for their online time 3 Ties up my sole phone line. By all means mention that more current info may be had from http://..., but I would expect to have it when I've just done a CVS checkout. -- Cheers John Summerfield http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support. Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.
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