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Re: Downloading and compiling projects



On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 14:02, Ossama Khayaat wrote:
> Assalamou Alaikom,
> I really need help in the following issues.
> So far, I tried so many times to download the test
> the source from the projects that we have like
> katoob, libquran, akka.
> I really feel i'm either stupid, or miss something!
> As far as I know, when I download the source, I
> will find the configure file so i can:
> 
> # ./configure
> # make
> # make install
> 
> Well, I find only configure.in and when I try to run
> it, it says permissions denied. So, I suppose it's a
> permissions problem and use:
> 

You have to bootstrap the source first.
Normally this is done with 
	make -f Makefile.dist
or 	
	make -f Makefile.cvs
But some projects also provide  a script for that, i.e.
./bootstrap
or 
./autogen.sh



Anas

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