Help file gives wrong (?) advice
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Help file gives wrong (?) advice
I downloaded the source of wesnoth-1.3.9 from this website and unzipped it. There is a file called INSTALL there that gives me advice how to install wesnoth.
It says:
It says:
but there is no autogen.shCompiling:
First untar the package:
$ tar xfjv wesnoth-x.y.z.tar.bz2
then
$ cd wesnoth-x.y.z
Do this
$ autogen.sh
$ make
$ sudo make install
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Re: Help file gives wrong (?) advice
./configure instead of ./autogen.sh in the development versions, I think. ./autogen.sh is for SVN. The development versions are simply SVN snapshots so that's probably why the help is wrong.Lorbi wrote:I downloaded the source of wesnoth-1.3.9 from this website and unzipped it. There is a file called INSTALL there that gives me advice how to install wesnoth.
It says:but there is no autogen.shCompiling:
First untar the package:
$ tar xfjv wesnoth-x.y.z.tar.bz2
then
$ cd wesnoth-x.y.z
Do this
$ autogen.sh
$ make
$ sudo make install
Re: Help file gives wrong (?) advice
You are right. autogen.sh won't work unless you have autotools installed, which are only used by developers. ./configure script is made for the common user who only has the minimal stuff installed.Aethaeryn wrote:./configure instead of ./autogen.sh in the development versions, I think. ./autogen.sh is for SVN. The development versions are simply SVN snapshots so that's probably why the help is wrong.
BTW, ./autogen.sh calls autoconf to generate ./configure
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