[Xastir] Upgrade / Update 1.98 to 1.99 CVS

David A Aitcheson david.aitcheson at gmail.com
Sun Sep 5 18:03:24 EDT 2010


Dave,

You are 99% spot on!  Except . . .

On 09/05/2010 01:16 PM, David Flood wrote:
>  after the "cvs update", did you do "./bootstrap" followed by
> "./configure"?  Those two command get the system ready for "make"...if
> that works then follow that by "sudo make install"
>
> So the sequence should look a little like this:
>
> cvs update
> <output of that command>
> ./bootstrap
> <should get 5 or 6 lines>
> ./configure
> <should get a lot of output followed by a chart of yes and no's>
> make
> <compiles the program>
> sudo make install
> <will prompt for root password and install things...>

This password (on most *nix operating systems) is the _users_ password. 
Not the root password.

> Dave
> KD7MYC
>
> On 9/5/2010 9:44 AM, Dean Groe wrote:
>> Both README.CVS and Notes:CVS had me believing that I should just be
>> able to
>> "cvs update" and su, then "make install", and I should be at 1.99 .
>>
>> Well, that did not work so well.  I still had 1.98 .
Dave
KB3EFS



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