From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 13:56:32 EDT
> Thanks for the advice!
> >From scratch, following the instructions under "Source Installation (Any
> Unix)" on http://www.abisource.com/download.
> > if you have compiled abiword from source and if i remember correctly there
> > will be a binary Abiword_s in a directory or subdirectory of obj.
>
> There is an executeable in
>
> /usr/local/AbiWord/abiword-1.0.2/abi/src/Linux_2.4.9_i386_OBJ/bin
>
> named AbiWord_d but, when I try to run it, it fails with complaints about a
> wrapper and fonts.
Aha, the key bit of information needed to solve this problem. This is
definately documented somewhere, if you search the abiword website
for the error message it should turn up
google: site:abisource.com "error message"
(i compiled from scratch once myself but got bored at this point and
instead used the older preinstalled version, i was using a remote
xsesion. i vaguely remember something about having to setup XFS x font
server)
setting up fonts, yuck.
> The web page is http://www.abisource.com/download; the commands are listed
> there under "Source Installation". I didn't know there was any other
> AbiWord download page.
the download page is a tricky beast, what you get is not all there is
to see.
http://abisource.com/download/index.phtml?all=1
> > There is documentation of the build instructions around somewhere
> > (...looks around for a bit...)
> > I look at the download page and i think i can guess. From the download
> > page it says:
> >
> > "This may take a few minutes to complete, but should compile and install
> > AbiWord. For a listing of common (and a couple not-so-common) build
> > options, see abi/BUILD.TXT."
>
> The final instruction on the download page for compiling from source is to
> run "make". It did not mention BUILD.TXT.
>
> The only command mentioned in BUILD.TXT that I had not run was "make
> install". This failed with the messages
i was thinking about make install, probably should have mentioned it in my
previous mail, it is important.
> ../../../../src/pkg/common/unix/scripts/makewrapper.sh:
> /usr/local/bin/AbiWord: No such file or directory
>
> I don't know what should be done about this error. It obviously needs a
> file but I do not understand why the file is not already there since "make"
> and "make install" were run.
>
> > PS why not use the prebuilt binaries?
>
> They are not available for Linux 7.1
Did you try the RPMs for Redhat Linux 7.3? I dont promise they will work
with 7.1 but it is worth a try (might be a few dependancies like libgal
and stuff). Also if you use Ximian redcarpet they also provide up to date
nicely packaged binaries, but late for that now that you have sucessfully
compiled abiword.
> As it stands, I still do not have a working copy of AbiWord. Perhaps I am
> getting closer, though. I would suggest that the instructions on the web
> page for building from source be eliminated in favor of directing the
> reader to BUILD.TXT. It is more complete.
A good suggestion, feel free to get involved, submit a patch to the
documentation and or file the suggeston (ask nicely) in bugzilla or maybe
get in contact with the developers.
Hope that helps
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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