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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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this:
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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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may have to build one architecture at a time and combine the results
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using the `lipo' tool if you have problems.
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`/usr/local/bin', include files under `/usr/local/include', etc. You
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`configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX', where PREFIX must be an
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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 `${prefix}', so that
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specifying just `--prefix' will affect all of the other directory
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specifications that were not explicitly provided.
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The most portable way to affect installation locations is to pass the
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correct locations to `configure'; however, many packages provide one or
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both of the following shortcuts of passing variable assignments to the
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`make install' command line to change installation locations without
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having to reconfigure or recompile.
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The first method involves providing an override variable for each
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affected directory. For example, `make install
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prefix=/alternate/directory' will choose an alternate location for all
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directory configuration variables that were expressed in terms of
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`${prefix}'. Any directories that were specified during `configure',
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but not in terms of `${prefix}', must each be overridden at install
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time for the entire installation to be relocated. The approach of
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makefile variable overrides for each directory variable is required by
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the GNU Coding Standards, and ideally causes no recompilation.
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However, some platforms have known limitations with the semantics of
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shared libraries that end up requiring recompilation when using this
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method, particularly noticeable in packages that use GNU Libtool.
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The second method involves providing the `DESTDIR' variable. For
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`/alternate/directory' before all installation names. The approach of
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`DESTDIR' overrides is not required by the GNU Coding Standards, and
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does not work on platforms that have drive letters. On the other hand,
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it does better at avoiding recompilation issues, and works well even
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when some directory options were not specified in terms of `${prefix}'
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--enable-silent-rules' sets the default to minimal output, which can be
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overridden with `make V=1'; while running `./configure
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--disable-silent-rules' sets the default to verbose, which can be
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overridden with `make V=0'.
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On HP-UX, the default C compiler is not ANSI C compatible. If GNU
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CC is not installed, it is recommended to use the following options in
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HP-UX `make' updates targets which have the same time stamps as
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their prerequisites, which makes it generally unusable when shipped
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generated files such as `configure' are involved. Use GNU `make'
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parse its `<wchar.h>' header file. The option `-nodtk' can be used as
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a workaround. If GNU CC is not installed, it is therefore recommended
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these programs are available in `/usr/bin'. So, if you need `/usr/ucb'
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