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Installation Instructions
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- Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 ,
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- 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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+ Copyright (C) 1994- 1996, 1999- 2002, 2004-2013 Free Software Foundation ,
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+ Inc.
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- This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
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- unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
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+ Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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+ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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+ notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is,
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+ without warranty of any kind.
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Basic Installation
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- You will need to build and install two libraries before you can
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- properly build pacman.
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- libarchive
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- http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/
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- libcurl
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- http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
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- Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
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+ Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
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configure, build, and install this package. The following
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- instructions are generic. Run `./configure --help` for specific
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- options.
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+ more-detailed instructions are generic; see the `README' file for
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+ instructions specific to this package. Some packages provide this
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+ `INSTALL' file but do not implement all of the features documented
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+ below. The lack of an optional feature in a given package is not
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+ necessarily a bug. More recommendations for GNU packages can be found
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+ in *note Makefile Conventions: (standards)Makefile Conventions.
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The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
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various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses
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you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version
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of `autoconf'.
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- The simplest way to compile this package is:
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+ The simplest way to compile this package is:
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1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
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`./configure' to configure the package for your system.
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2. Type `make' to compile the package.
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3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
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- the package.
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+ the package, generally using the just-built uninstalled binaries .
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4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
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- documentation.
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- 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
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+ documentation. When installing into a prefix owned by root, it is
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+ recommended that the package be configured and built as a regular
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+ user, and only the `make install' phase executed with root
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+ privileges.
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+ 5. Optionally, type `make installcheck' to repeat any self-tests, but
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+ this time using the binaries in their final installed location.
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+ This target does not install anything. Running this target as a
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+ regular user, particularly if the prior `make install' required
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+ root privileges, verifies that the installation completed
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+ correctly.
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+ 6. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
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source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
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files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
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a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is
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all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
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with the distribution.
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+ 7. Often, you can also type `make uninstall' to remove the installed
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+ files again. In practice, not all packages have tested that
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+ uninstallation works correctly, even though it is required by the
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+ GNU Coding Standards.
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+ 8. Some packages, particularly those that use Automake, provide `make
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+ distcheck', which can by used by developers to test that all other
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+ targets like `make install' and `make uninstall' work correctly.
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+ This target is generally not run by end users.
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Compilers and Options
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- Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that the
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- `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help' for
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- details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
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+ Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
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+ the `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help'
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+ for details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
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You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
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by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here
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Compiling For Multiple Architectures
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- You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
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same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
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own directory. To do this, you can use GNU `make'. `cd' to the
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directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
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the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the
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- source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
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+ source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'. This
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+ is known as a "VPATH" build.
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With a non-GNU `make', it is safer to compile the package for one
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architecture at a time in the source code directory. After you have
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installed the package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before
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reconfiguring for another architecture.
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+ On MacOS X 10.5 and later systems, you can create libraries and
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+ executables that work on multiple system types--known as "fat" or
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+ "universal" binaries--by specifying multiple `-arch' options to the
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+ compiler but only a single `-arch' option to the preprocessor. Like
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+ ./configure CC="gcc -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64" \
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+ CXX="g++ -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc -arch ppc64" \
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+ CPP="gcc -E" CXXCPP="g++ -E"
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+ This is not guaranteed to produce working output in all cases, you
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+ using the `lipo' tool if you have problems.
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Installation Names
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- By default, `make install' installs the package's commands under
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`/usr/local/bin', include files under `/usr/local/include', etc. You
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can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
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- `configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
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In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
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options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular
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kinds of files. Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
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+ you can set and what kinds of files go in them. In general, the
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+ default for these options is expressed in terms of `${prefix}', so that
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+ specifying just `--prefix' will affect all of the other directory
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+ specifications that were not explicitly provided.
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+ The most portable way to affect installation locations is to pass the
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+ correct locations to `configure'; however, many packages provide one or
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+ both of the following shortcuts of passing variable assignments to the
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+ `make install' command line to change installation locations without
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+ having to reconfigure or recompile.
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+ The first method involves providing an override variable for each
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+ prefix=/alternate/directory' will choose an alternate location for all
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+ directory configuration variables that were expressed in terms of
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+ `${prefix}'. Any directories that were specified during `configure',
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+ but not in terms of `${prefix}', must each be overridden at install
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+ time for the entire installation to be relocated. The approach of
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+ makefile variable overrides for each directory variable is required by
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+ the GNU Coding Standards, and ideally causes no recompilation.
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+ However, some platforms have known limitations with the semantics of
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+ shared libraries that end up requiring recompilation when using this
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+ method, particularly noticeable in packages that use GNU Libtool.
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+ The second method involves providing the `DESTDIR' variable. For
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+ does not work on platforms that have drive letters. On the other hand,
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If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
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with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
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option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
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`configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
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They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
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+ On HP-UX, the default C compiler is not ANSI C compatible. If GNU
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+ HP-UX `make' updates targets which have the same time stamps as
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`--help'
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