On 10/07/2018 06:42 PM, Diagon wrote: > ---- On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 00:19:00 -0700 Christian Grothoff > <[email protected]> wrote ---- > > > Hi Diagon, > > > > Thanks for the constructive feedback. I've been trying to get people to > > put installation instructions into > > doc/documentation/chapters/installation.texi and -only- there, > > Can you give me instructions how to compile this by hand, so I can read it?
$ cd doc/documentation
$ makeinfo --pdf gnunet.texi
You should get a PDF with ~230 pages called 'gnunet.pdf' afterwards.
Similar --html, --docbook and --plaintext should also work...
> Also, you understand that all these requirements/ optional requirements/
> very-very optional requirements are quite confusing, particularly without
> documentation. Where did this guy royneary on github find out? How is it
> they know that many of the "required" packages are actually not required?
> That one is replaceable (libgnurl) and that the one that's too old can just
> be left out (libmicrohttpd-dev)? For me at least, as a non-developer, this
> is bewildering.
I suspect they figured that if it compiles without the dependency, the
dependency clearly is strictly-speaking optional ;-). Which is true for
many dependencies, as we try to make it such that then features are
simply disabled in the build.
> > I hope this helps a bit where we are and where I hope to go!
>
> It helps a lot! There is the key issue that didn't get answered, though.
> Could you help with that?
>
> There is one required package that is too old in both Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian
> Stretch (libmicrohttpd-dev). How do I deal with that? There is also an
> optional package that is too old in Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and maybe Stretch
> (libpulse-dev). How do I handle that? - without damaging my system, that is.
> Also, what does libjansson-dev provide, and what version do we need? Are
> there any other unmentioned {,{,very{, very}} optional} dependencies?
You could install libmicrohttpd from source (by default to /usr/local),
and pass --with-microhttpd=/usr/local to 'configure'.
libjansson-dev provides the ability to parse JSON, which is used by the
GNUnet REST APIs, which is used by ReclaimID, which is not yet
documented at all in the manual. I hope Martin will find the time to
move some of the existing documentation into the manual "soon".
> I would in addition suggest that any release (0.11.0) should be able to work
> in the most up to date Debians/Ubuntus, which does not now appear to be the
> case.
Agreed.
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