From ilug-admin@linux.ie Fri Sep 6 11:40:17 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: zzzz@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by example.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9AD16F17 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:38:13 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for zzzz@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:38:13 +0100 (IST) Received: from webnote.net (mail.webnote.net [193.120.211.219]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g869eCC28625 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:40:12 +0100 Received: from lugh.tuatha.org (root@lugh.tuatha.org [194.125.145.45]) by webnote.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA19479 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 01:32:43 +0100 Received: from lugh (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lugh.tuatha.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA17211; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 01:31:38 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: lugh.tuatha.org: Host root@localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be lugh Received: from mail00.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (mail00.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.118.16]) by lugh.tuatha.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA17175 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 01:31:26 +0100 Received: (qmail 54537 messnum 527868 invoked from network[159.134.112.65/p112-65.as1.bdt.dublin.eircom.net]); 6 Sep 2002 00:30:55 -0000 Received: from p112-65.as1.bdt.dublin.eircom.net (HELO calm.mc) (159.134.112.65) by mail00.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 54537) with SMTP; 6 Sep 2002 00:30:55 -0000 Received: from mconry by calm.mc with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17n71T-00012j-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 01:30:55 +0100 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 01:30:55 +0100 From: Michael Conry To: ilug@linux.ie Subject: Re: [ILUG] Newby to Linux looking for information on cvs Message-Id: <20020906003054.GA3997@calm.mc> Reply-To: michael.conry@ucd.ie References: <5FE418B3F962D411BED40000E818B33C9C8FEC@HASSLE> <000c01c2552f$11748cf0$10a87dc2@desktop> <20020906002841.GA995@calm.mc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020906002841.GA995@calm.mc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: ilug-admin@linux.ie Errors-To: ilug-admin@linux.ie X-Mailman-Version: 1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Irish Linux Users' Group X-Beenthere: ilug@linux.ie On 0020 +0100 %{!Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:53:32PM +0100}, Darragh wrote: > the help that I received today. Then though I tried to build them. I > started by trying the w3 program. I used the following lines which produced > some strange results. Would any one be able to set me straight? > > ./configure --with-emacs --prefix=/usr/local/src/beta/w3 --exec-prefix=/usr/ > local/src/beta/w3 --with-url=/url/url One thing I _think_ you might be doing slightly wrong is your specification of prefixes. --prefix is the directory to be used as root for _installing_ files. Typically packages use /usr/local as default (so binaries might then go in /usr/local/bin, documentation in /usr/local/doc and so forth). Normally, I find it sufficient to put --prefix=/usr/local, and do not further specify things like --exec-prefix. Maybe you have a special reason for using the prefixes you chose, in which case ignore me! > That worked fine so I moved to the next step. > make > At the bottem of the text I got the following messages: > Cannot open load file: /url/url/url-vars.el > make[1]: *** [custom-load.el] Error 255 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/beta/w3/lisp' > make: *** [w3] Error 2 > > When I got around to trying the url package I had no problems. In saying > that this doesn't necessarily mean that I was doing it right so below are > the commands I used. > ./configure --with-emacs --prefix=/url/url --exec-prefix=/url/url I'd make the same remarks about prefixes here. I would use the command ./configure --with-emacs --prefix=/usr/local To get w3 to compile, I think the with-url flag you should use is --with-url=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ (Assuming you compiled/installed url with --prefix=/usr/local Since you appear to have installed url in /url/url, configure w3 with ./configure --with-emacs --prefix=/usr/local/ --with-url=/url/url/share/emacs/site-lisp A command you would have found useful would have been find / -name 'url-vars.el' -print Which would have told you where the url-vars.el file was installed. A program which is very useful is checkinstall http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ It allows you to install packages from source while still registering them in the package management system of your distro (rpm,deb,tgz). Instead of "make install" type "checkinstall", and a package is put together and installed for you. Makes uninstallation simpler than it might otherwise be. -- Michael Conry Ph.:+353-1-7161987, Web: http://www.acronymchile.com Key fingerprint = 5508 B563 6791 5C84 A947 CB01 997B 3598 09DE 502C -- Irish Linux Users' Group: ilug@linux.ie http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: listmaster@linux.ie