[Xastir] Stymied...

[Wes Johnston]

Well, I was reading the README.CVS file and it says [see below].... I
think there are too many places here to read this stuff... and yet none
of them specific enough for me to follow.  I have ever see one of the
readme or install files tell me how to d/l the CVS and just drop it cold
with something like "and there you have the CVS sources", and never tell
me what to do.  I think alot of these readme files are just too broad
and vauge in nature for a newbie.  I need something that says DO this
and DO this NEXT.  and it needs to be in an obvious place.  I realize
many of you may shake your heads at this ( like you guys picked at me
for wanting checkboxes in the DOCS), but I think I'm pretty
representative of the average windows user who is lost in all this mess
and would love to learn about it.

Wes

CVS Commands for Maintaining the Current Development Sources:
     -------------------------------------------------------------
     Once all this is in place, just cd into the "xastir" directory at
any
     time, type "cvs update", then type "make install" and you'll have
the
     latest development stuff installed on your system.

     Here are the commands to do if you want a clean build of the latest
     sources, and want configure to recheck all the libraries and header
     files that Xastir needs:

         cd xastir
         cvs update (snag all the latest changes)
         aclocal;autoconf;autoheader;automake (skip these: for
developers only)
         rm config.cache (causes configure to start from scratch)
         ./configure
         (make clean;make -j3 2>&1) | tee make.log
         su
         make install (make install-strip can be used after the first
time,
                       it removes debugging info from executable)
         chmod 4555 /usr/local/bin/xastir (only needed if using kernel
AX.25)
         exit (from root)
         xastir



On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 14:37, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> You start the process with './bootstrap.sh', which will invoke
> autoconf, creating configure.  See the "First Time Install" section in
> INSTALL.
> 
> Bob, N7XY
> 
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:20:27PM -0400, Wes Johnston wrote:
> > I am soooo frustrated....  I downloaded the CVS version sources and
> > tried to compile... there is no configure file in there to start the
> > process.... so now I'm trying to download 1.1.5 .  Got it from two
> > different servers and still get an error which says the file is not a
> > Gzip file when I try to untarball it.  arrrrghhhhh........
> > 
> > Wes
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