Hi, I'm relatively new to Linux (I avoid it like the plague), so I tried building Yhc on Linux. The first thing I did was darcs get, all nice and easy, if not particularly fast. Next thing I did was type make, and got a strange error message. A few minutes later I realised that the reason is because configure has not been run. Is it possible to detect this case, and ideally just run configure for the user, or at the very least give a helpful and friendly message telling them exactly what they need to do? I was very impressed that yhc and yhi both built nice and easily, although the YHC_BASE_PATH issue threw up its head, and since I have no idea how to set an environment variable, at that point I have to give up. Sensible defaults would be really nice. It should also be documented somewhere on the wiki. Thanks Neil
Hi,
Attached is a patch for the not running configure problem. If they
user hasn't run configure, then typing "make" gives:
Makefile:1: Makefile.inc: No such file or directory
Makefile:9: *** Please run configure first. Stop.
I have no idea if this will break everything horribly :)
Thanks
Neil
On 12/15/05, Neil Mitchell
Hi,
I'm relatively new to Linux (I avoid it like the plague), so I tried building Yhc on Linux.
The first thing I did was darcs get, all nice and easy, if not particularly fast.
Next thing I did was type make, and got a strange error message. A few minutes later I realised that the reason is because configure has not been run. Is it possible to detect this case, and ideally just run configure for the user, or at the very least give a helpful and friendly message telling them exactly what they need to do?
I was very impressed that yhc and yhi both built nice and easily, although the YHC_BASE_PATH issue threw up its head, and since I have no idea how to set an environment variable, at that point I have to give up. Sensible defaults would be really nice. It should also be documented somewhere on the wiki.
Thanks
Neil
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