Website Fedora build instructions are missing libcurl-devel and libssh2-devel

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Nov 3 07:41:06 PST 2015


On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 09:10:26PM +1100, Rick Walsh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The subject says it all.  I just made a clean install of Fedora 23, and
> being lazy, copied the install instructions from
> https://subsurface-divelog.org/documentation/building/ into the terminal.
> 
> The install instructions on the website do not include installing
> libcurl-devel and libssh2-devel.  These are listed in the Subsurface
> INSTALL file.
> 
> Other than that, I can report the Subsurface built fine on Fedora 23.
> 
> I did have to modify and rebuild the akmod-wl srpm from rpmfusion in order
> to get the stupid Broadcom wifi chip to play nice, but that's another story.


I'll fix the website. Thanks for catching that.

It seems that the build instructions in pretty much all languages are way
out of date... when I noticed it, I added warnings in English at the top.
I'm thinking that we should either update them or delete them and just
point people at the English instructions...

/D


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