Install instructions

[Dazed_75]

Just a reminder that no one has ever provided a fix for the problem
originally reported.  That being that if one wishes to build
libdivecomputer in Linux, the directions provided on
http://subsurface.hohndel.org/building/ do not work as the step "autoreconf
--install" fails because LT_INIT is referenced in aclocal.m4 and defined
(?) in both configure.ac and configure as being "win32.dll" which obviously
does not exist in Linux.

So ... should that step be left out, changed, or one of those files
modified to point at something that DOES exist, or what?


On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 11:03 +0000, Holger Schmermbeck wrote:
> > Dazed_75 wrote:
> > > Sorry, I was not ready to send that, so ...
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I know you are all very busy so I understand if no one has time for
> this,
> > >> but I am setting up a new VM in which to build and test SubSurface
> under
> > >> Ubuntu 13.10.  I am following the guidelines laid out in the INSTALL
> > >> document in subsurface-61d5aac so hopefully, the problems I encounter
> can
> > >> indicate a documentation problem that needs to be fixed.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>    1. It would appear thatautoconf (or autoconf2.13?) should be
> included
> > >>    in the list of items that should be installed for the
> libdivecomputer
> > >>    section.
> > >>    2. After installing autoconf, the autoconf --install instruction
> fails
> > >>    with:
> >
> >
> > Yesterday I reinstalled my Debian, after crashing it. And so I saw, that
> > the Install instructions for libdivecomputer seems to be crap, for the
> > actual versions.
>
> Hmm, that's a harsh word. So let's compare
>
> Here is what's in the INSTALL file for Linux:
> To compile libdivecomputer:
> $ git clone git://git.libdivecomputer.org/libdivecomputer
> $ cd libdivecomputer
> $ git checkout release-0.4
> $ autoreconf --install
> $ ./configure --disable-shared
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
>
> > So try it this way
> >
> > git clone git://git.libdivecomputer.org/libdivecomputer.git
> > cd libdivecomputer/
>
> That trailing slash?
>
> > git checkout v0.4.1
>
> That's wrong - if you build from source you almost certainly want the
> latest commit in the release-0.4 branch, not the v0.4.1 tag
>
> > autoreconf --install
> > ./configure
>
> So you allow shared libraries. We have that discussion here every few
> months. There is no good reason to want shared libraries for
> libdivecomputer, and many good reasons to want to link statically.
> So I'd consider this wrong.
>
> > make
> > sudo make install (or if no sudo is allowed - su -c "make install")
>
> That last part in parenthesis is semi useful
>
> How the other differences make what's in the INSTALL "crap" I don't
> quite understand.
>
> Can you enlighten me?
>
> /D
>
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