[XForms] fdesign

Angus Leeming angus.leeming at btopenworld.com
Mon Jun 21 11:44:58 EDT 2004


On Monday 21 June 2004 4:33 pm, Gayle C Roth wrote:
> I don't have automake on the UNIX machine I was using, so I guess I
> should put it there.  Once, that's done, how do I build something
> in a given directory (such as xforms/fdesign)?  I have the
> necessary source there (on UNIX) already.

Gayle, if you're building from the 1.0.90 tarball, you don't need 
automake.

$ tar xvzf xforms-1_0_90.tar.gz
$ cd xforms-1_0_90
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure
$ make

Should work fine. All generated files will be inthe build tree and 
will not pollute your original source tree.

If you are using cvs, you will need automake and autoconf to generate 
the Makefile.in files and configure. The build strategy above would 
differ only in that you'd add a command

$ ./autogen.sh

before the 'cd build' line.

> Or would it be better just to copy the .c's and .h's I have down to
> the VMS machine and just not build the demos that involve those 3
> files that caused the core dumps?

It would be better to track down the root cause of the problem...

Angus



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