----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 04:56 AM Subject: [Pan-users] Re: compile ?
> "Travis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 07 > Dec 2008 00:36:23 -0800: > >> I want to compile Pan 0.133 from source on my netbook. I have Ubuntu >> dual boot with XP. I have just done "apt-get install build-essential" >> that I read about on http://www.linux.com/feature/54945 paragraph 9. >> The rest of the directions I don't get. Any help will be appreciated. > > Hopefully someone with direct Ubuntu knowledge will step in to fill in > what I miss as I don't run Ubuntu, but Gentoo. However... > > Having read the linked instructions, it looks like you should now do this > (with sudo if appropriate): > > apt-get build-dep pan > > Since both Ubuntu 2008.x versions come with pan 0.132, and the deps > between it and 0.133 aren't different except that 0.133 allows never > versions of various dependencies, according to the link, that should > install the various dev-packages (build-deps), containing headers and etc > that compiling pan from source requires but that aren't included in the > normal binary packages because they aren't required for running pre-built > binaries. > > If you don't already have it, you also want to install checkinstall: > > apt-get install checkinstall > > Once you've done that without error, you should have what's necessary to > build and install pan. Now, you need the pan sources tarball itself. > Download it from pan.rebelbase.com and untar it (this part can be as a > normal user) to some working directory. Can I download it to the desktop? Would that be pan-0.133.tar.bz2 or pan-0.133.tar.gz? How do I untar it? > The below assumes you are running the various commands from the pan > sources dir you just untarred, so cd into it now. If by "running the various commands" you mean things like "apt-get" from a terminal , that is what I have been doing. What is "cd into it"? > The configure script sets up the build for your system, detecting all > sorts of stuff like which compiler to use (gcc), where utilities like sed > are located, what command line options various things need, that sort of > stuff. > > Another bit of configuration that the configure script handles is various > compile time options. You can run (normally these work run as a normal > user)... > > ./configure --help > > ... to get a list. Most things will be auto-detected so you don't need > to worry about them, but the spelling option is of particular interest > and I believe you have to specifically enable it or it's disabled. For > your first try, I'd say turn on spelling only if the default Ubuntu > version has it, because otherwise you'll have to download additional > dependencies. Better to just do it like Ubuntu does for now and worry > about spelling later if it doesn't enable it and you want it. > > Once you've figured out your configure command line, you'll run it as > simply > > ./configure > > to use the defaults, or (as appropriate) > > ./configure --with-whatever --without-whichever > > > Once the configure script has finished without error, it's time to do the > actual compile. This will take some time, particularly on a limited > resource netbook, so you can set it running and go eat lunch or watch a > TV program or whatever. Figure half an hour, possibly more. (I've no > idea how long it'll take on that, maybe even two hours, if it's still > spitting out updates every couple minutes or so, just let it keep > going.) As with configure, make should normally be runnable as a user, > tho there may be occasional access errors but if so it's really a bug > either with pan or with Ubuntu. This command is simple: > > make > > After that completes, assuming success, most people would run make > install. However, the Ubuntu way seems to be checkinstall, which will > make a normal .deb package out of it and install that. That's the better > way, since the package manager then knows about it and can handle > uninstall and etc. This would again need run as root, with sudo, etc. > according to the link (and it makes sense since you're installing to dirs > that aren't normally user writable), but other than that, I don't know > anything about it since it's Debian/Ubuntu specific. > > checkinstall > > Hope it helps! =:^) Those are all the questions I have so far. I'm sure I will have more as I progress. In order to get Ubuntu and my netbook (Eee PC 1000H) to work together (hardware wise) properly I needed to do a bunch of modifications to Ubuntu by following the directions at www.array.org and they didn't always work the first time and I was almost ready to give up but tried it one more time and then the modifications took effect. I also have Ubuntu on my desktop (dual boot with Vista) and will want to update to Pan 0.133 here as well. Thanks much for the help. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
