I assume by the ./configure stuff and PGP signature you are running some flavor of Linux; anyway ...
To compile AbiWord the starting directory is 'abi', cd into abi/, read the BUILD* files and then run the appropriate commands. Note: for the Head branch (v1.1.x/v2.x) build these documents have been updated/merged and placed in abi/docs/build/ (online in bonsai http://www.abisource.com/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvsroot&module=All and http://abiword.pchasm.org/abiword/source/cvs/abiword-cvs/abi/docs/build/BUILD.html ) or my Windows biased variant http://abiword.pchasm.org/abiword/source/docs/abi2build.html There are several different build systems, the most cross platform is the Makefile based one (which is what I use), the ./configure based one (which won't work for Windows), and then other platforms/ compilers may have workspace like files (e.g. MSVC6). Start the build procedure in abi and it will automatically build the necessary peer[1] libraries. [1]peer modules are all those other directories you saw more-or-less (some are Abi's docs or runtime files, and not all are for all platforms, specifically I believe Unix Systems will use system shared libraries instead of peers). Hope this helps some. If you need more assistance I'm sure someone who actually builds on Linux can be of more help. Jeremy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] By the way, I just noticed this was sent to abiword-user, you may wish to switch over to abiword-dev for building/compiling/development type issues. "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/28/2002 11:03:41 AM: > >I've grabbed the 18 meg tar ball of the source. Now that I've opened it, >I find: > >ls -l >total 20 >drwxr-xr-x 9 rodney rodney 1024 Oct 27 22:01 abi .. > >with no set guidelines on which directory to start in.. I have gone >through all of them, and "./configure" & "make" all of them, but not >sure that is the correct way. > >I've looked through the online FAQ, to no avail. > >Any tips, suggestions? > >Thanks > >-- >Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
