Install instructions

[Dazed_75]

COOL!  That worked so those two additions need to be made to
subsurface.hohndel.org/building/

Thanks Jef and Dirk!


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 00:28 +0100, Jef Driesen wrote:
> > On 17-12-13 00:03, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > The instructions are correct. I suspect you do not have libtool
> installed.
> >
> > The win32-dll is windows specific option that is required to convince
> libtool to
> > build a dll. It's ignored on all other platforms.
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/LT_005fINIT.html
>
> So the bug at hand may be that we aren't listing libtool as a
> dependency? Oh yes, and I know why... we always only listed the
> Subsurface dependency and I just with this release dropped the awkward
> phrasing we used to have around libusb.
>
> Jef, what else is required?
>
> Debian: libtool autoconf
> Fedora: libtool autoconf
>
> (wow, even the same package names)
>
> /D
>
>


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