> Also, when building my package, the folks at linuxpackages.net, a
> Slackware package place, informed me that the package of Abi on the
> Slack 10 cd installed libwpd and fribidi as well. I was under the
> impression that these files (at least libwpd) were compiled right into
> AbiWord.
Nope, they are just shared dependencies. They should be distributed
seperately.
> As I look at the files that I unpackaged from that official
> package, I see many .h files in usr/include/libwpd-1/libwpd/
> usr/include/fribidi/, the two ttftool files, plus:
> usr/doc/fribidi-0.10.4 and libwpd-0.6.6
> usr/bin/fribidi
> usr/bin/fribidi-config
> usr/bin/wpd2{html|raw|text}
> usr/lib/libfribidi.{a|la}
> usr/lib/libwpd-1.{a|la}
> usr/lib/pkgconfig/fribidi.pc and libwpd-1.pc
> Should all these files be packaged with AbiWord?
libwpd 0.6.6 is OLD and a mess; please use 0.7.2. Abi 2.1.5 and 2.0.10
can't even use 0.6.6 anymore.
> Also, one last thing: The Slackware installer includes an abiword.8.gz
> man page. This is not created by "make install". Is this an official
> part of the source tree, or a Slackware add-in? Should we be installing
> a man page? If we should, where is it?
we have it, but I don't know where :)
> Thanks for your help! Hopefully I'll have nice packages of both trees
> of Abi for Slackware 10 soon!
Yay, thanks,
Marc
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