Re: Getting started with working on AbiWord

Logan Hall (warrior514@worldnet.att.net)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:03:51 -0600


Logan Hall wrote:

> Paul Rohr wrote:
>
> > At 11:57 PM 10/20/99 -0600, Logan Hall wrote:
> > >The only problem i have discovered in that regard is that the dictionary
> > >file is not installed automaticaly (you have to cp it to the right dir
> > >and then unzip it). I will look into why this is when i have some free
> > >time..posibly tomarrow.
> > >
> > >Thanks for any help. I hope I can be of service in some way.
> >
> > This one sounds like it's worth tracking down. Do a little digging through
> > the makefiles to compare what happens for the following three makefile
> > targets:
> >
> > make canonical (unpacks the dictionary)
> > make distribution (uses make canonical)
> > make install (??)
> >
> > If you can read makefiles and use grep, this shouldn't be too hard to nail.
> >
> > Paul
>
> I found the problem....the Makefile uses unzip -o and there is no command
> unzip on LinuxPPC I have gunzip but it doesn't have an option '-o'. I got
> them to unzip manualy but using 'zcat *.zip > american.hash' after i had
> copied it over to the right directory. how should i change the make file to
> fix this? gunzip doesn't like the .zip ending either. I will work on it more
> here pretty soon...right now it is time to write up a report for intro to
> engineering.

Fixed it...I had to install unzip. I guess LinuxPPC just doesn't install it by
default.



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