On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Nathan Broadbent <nathan....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry about that! I won't change topic in the middle of a thread. > > I've figured out why the installation documentation didn't work for > me: You pre-generate the 'configure' script and package this when you > distribute a release in a tarball, but this configure script isn't > checked into the repository.
The configure script shouldn't be checked into the repository as it might not match the target machine. > I checked out the source-code from github, but the documentation > doesn't mention anything about running './autogen.sh' first. (Sorry, I > haven't done much C programming for a while...) Good point, that part of the docs were written when Geany was mostly a C programmers paradise, and *every* C programmer sort of understood autofools, now it has so many non-C users the process should be better explained. > > Since the project has moved to Github, more people will be getting the > source code straight from the repository. So it might be helpful to > replace " $ ./configure " with " $ ./autogen.sh " in the "Autotools > based build system" section of the manual > (http://www.geany.org/manual/current/#installation), and also in the > installation section of the README. > Don't suppose you would have a shance to provide a patch/pull request? Cheers Lex _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel