From: Mark Gilbert (webmaster@dofty.zzn.com)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 18:40:52 EDT
Try 'gmake install', and Mr. Eschenberg please dont be so quick to
judge. If I were quick to judge, I might judge you an idiot for being
unable to install abiword. But that would be a shame wouldn't it.
Much irked
-MG
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 12:27, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> Amazing omission! mumble mumble mumble <censored>
>
> compiling from scratch is different from installing binaries please be
> specific. sounds like you are compiling from scratch.
>
> 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.
>
> I am not a mind reader exactly which commands did you run, which web page
> specifically are you talking about?
> 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."
>
> Sincerely
> Alan Horkan
>
> PS why not use the prebuilt binaries?
>
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Kent Eschenberg wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 12:02:23 -0400
> > From: Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe@psc.edu>
> > To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> > Subject: Amazing Omission in 1.0.2
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do you start Abiword?
> >
> > There are no instructions on the web page on how to start the program. The
> > tutorial on the web page is blank, and the FAQ doesn't cover this question.
> >
> > There are no files in the distribution with names like "README" or
> > "GETTING_STARTED" that describe how to run it.
> >
> > After the installation, I looked for something named "abiword" in /bin,
> > /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib. I looked all through all of the
> > directories in the distribution.
> >
> > I downloaded Abiword 1.0.2 and ran the commands just as your web page says,
> > including using gmake. My machine uses Redhat Linux 7.1. There seemed to be
> > no errors during the make.
>
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