Build instructions clarification

Question

Build instructions clarification

mguthaus opened this issue 4 years ago · 3 comments

I think the builld instructions should require running autoconf -i as well before configure?

Answer 1 · 2021-02-27T10:26:27.000Z

@mguthaus Thanks for the suggestion.
In my experience, running autoconf on the installation machine occasionally resulted in an error when re-yacc-ing the parser.
So far, I have not had any problems installing on linux machines running the configure script as is, but let me know if you run into problems and I'll look into it.

Answer 2 · 2021-02-27T14:23:56.000Z

Hi Mitch, There is no configure script committed, just the configure.ac file. Matt

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Answer 3 · 2021-02-28T23:56:27.000Z

@mguthaus Thanks for the clarification.

The github page has instructions for installing from the distribution release which includes the configure script, but no instructions for installing from the git repo.

I should add a file to repo to explain that more clearly.