> Moses DeJong wrote:
> >
> > I was able to build from the CVS source on a RedHat 5.2 system but when
> > I tried to install abi I got this error.
>
> > What do I need to do to be able to install abi word?
It happens to the best of us.
> Aah, looks like you need abidistfiles. That's something that completely
> slipped my mind when I wrote the install target--that people using
> tarballs have to have a package of those files.
I did that but when I ran it I got a new error.
% make ...
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/project/abi/src/wp'
(cd /usr/local/project/abi/src/../user/wp/help; tar -cf -
[A-Z][a-z][A-Z][A-Z]/*.*) | (cd
/usr/local/project/abi/src/../src/Linux_2.2.9_i386_OBJ/AbiSuite/AbiWord/help;
tar -xf -)
(cd /usr/local/project/abi/src/../user/wp/sample; tar -cf -
[A-Z][a-z][A-Z][A-Z]/*.*) | (cd
/usr/local/project/abi/src/../src/Linux_2.2.9_i386_OBJ/AbiSuite/AbiWord/sample;
tar -xf -)
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/project/abi/src/wp'
(cd /usr/local/project/abi/src/../../abidistfiles; tar -cf -
dictionary/*.hash) | (cd
/usr/local/project/abi/src/../src/Linux_2.2.9_i386_OBJ/AbiSuite; tar -xf
-)
(cd /usr/local/project/abi/src/../../abidistfiles/icons; cp *_48*
/usr/local/project/abi/src/../src/Linux_2.2.9_i386_OBJ/AbiSuite/icons)
(cd /usr/local/project/abi/src/../../unixfonts/fonts ; cp *.*
/usr/local/project/abi/src/../src/Linux_2.2.9_i386_OBJ/AbiSuite/fonts)
/bin/sh: /usr/local/project/abi/src/../../unixfonts/fonts: No such file or
directory
cp: Linux_2.2.9_i386_OBJ: omitting directory
make: *** [canonical] Error 1
Any Ideas?
> If you're using CVS, just do "cvs co abidistfiles" at the same level
> as you did "cvs co abi" and the 'make install' should work.
Could you also add acheck to the Makefile that lloks for these
files like it checks for expat? That way some poor user will not
get bit by this bug again.
later
mo
> I'll go update the web page to make this a bit more visible, and
> we'll need to get a tarball of the distfiles for people building
> from source tarball.
>
> --
> Shaw Terwilliger
>