"Altenau, Maureen D CECOM RDEC C2D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The runConfigure script is in the samples directory.
Yes, and there is one in the src/ directory as well.
> I moved the configure script that was included with the autoconf
> software into that directory and ran it. It seemed to run. It
> created several directories and Makefiles. I did not set the -m and
> -t switches. Is that a problem?
Ackk!!!
No, no, no, no!!
First, you do *not* need autoconf, you are *not* going to modify the
source code files, remove it from sight. I don't know where you got
the idea that you needed it.
Most Open Source software is built and installed in a series of very
easy steps:
* download tarball (foo.tar.gz)
* untar the tarball (tar zxf foo.tar.gz, or gunzip foo.tar.gz && tar xf foo.tar
* configure (or in the case of Xerces-C 'runConfigure')
* make (or depending on your system 'gmake')
* make install (or depending on your system 'gmake install')
You first want to cd into the src/ directory and execute runConfigure
there. You don't need the -t or -m flags, but it will use the defaults
which you may not want if you are doing unicode processing. I don't do
unicode, so it's fine for me.
Then you will 'make' and 'make install'.
After that, you want to go to the samples/ directory and execute that
runConfigure script, then 'make' and 'make install' there as
well. Then you can try out the sample programs that came with Xerces-C
(e.g. DOMCount, SAXCount, etc) to ensure that you've got a working
installation.
The entire build system is set up for you, *DON'T* start moving files
around!!! I would remove your build directory and unpack it from
scratch.
> Also, can I use make or do I need to use gmake?
If you've got solaris, you don't want to use the system make that
comes with solaris, you want to use the GNU make program which is
usually installed as 'gmake'. If you run the command 'gmake --version'
you should see:
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
Built for powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
or something similar.
jas.
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