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Installation Instructions for XARCHIE 2.0
George Ferguson, ferguson@cs.rochester.edu
23 Apr 1993
Please see the file README and the manpage regarding reporting problems.
Please read the file PROBLEMS before reporting anything.
-> If you don't have imake/xmkmf, see item (A) below.
1. Xarchie comes with a GNU autoconf-generated configure script that
will hopefully configure the distribution for your system
automatically. Complete generic details for running the script
are contained in the file INSTALL.GNU. Basically, you should run
the script by doing
% sh ./configure
to create the config.h file. This file is used both by C files and
by the Imakefile. You can edit it by hand to change anything that
the script got wrong (see (B), below).
Note: If you use "strange" compiler (that isn't cc or gcc), you
should set the environment variable CC appropriately before running
configure. Otherwise it will get things that require compilation
wrong.
Note: Using the configure options like "--prefix" will probably
set the install directories properly. See item (C) below.
If running configure yields sed errors, see the file PROBLEMS.
2. Execute
% xmkmf
to create the Makefile. Alternatively,
% imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/local/lib/X11/config
where the directory given with "-I" is where your Imake.tmpl and
Imake.rules live. If you have neither xmkmf nor imake, see (A)
below.
3. Unless you commented out the use of both the MultiList and
FileChooser widgets in the Imakefile (see (C), below), execute
% make Makefiles
to run imake in the FWF/* subdirectories. Alternately, run it
(or xmkmf) in the subdirectories by hand.
4. Execute
% make depend
to add the dependencies to the Makefile. This is only necessary if
you change any of the files, including the app-defaults file Xarchie.ad
or the manpage. Note that if you change Xarchie.ad you will need
"ad2c" and if you change the manpage you will need to be able to run
the shell scripts "help-text[12].sh".
5. Make the package using
% make
You can try xarchie without installing it, provided that the
fallback resources have been compiled in using ad2c.
To experiment with different resource settings without recompiling,
edit Xarchie.ad and then do:
% ln -s Xarchie.ad Xarchie
% setenv XAPPLRESDIR $cwd
If you have a previous version of xarchie installed, you will need
to do
% setenv XFILESEARCHPATH $cwd
to prevent the old app-defaults (in the standard place, presumably,
since you installed them) from conflicting. Your mileage will vary
on this depending on your version of X.
6. Install the package using
% make install install.man
This will install the xarchie executable, the app-defaults file,
and the manpage.
NOTE: The Imakefile provides the target "World", which does the following:
% make -n World
make Makefile
make Makefiles
make depend
make clean
make
A. If you don't have imake/xmkmf, you'll have to work with the file
Makefile.dst. You should copy Makefile.dst to Makefile, and then
edit it to set the definitions of XINCS, XLIBS, etc., to reflect
the peculiarities of your X installation. Subdirectories also have
Makefile.dst files, which you will have to rename to Makefile. You
can do this with the command:
% make Makefiles
or
% make -f Makefile.dst Makefiles
if you didn't copy Makefile.dst to Makefile.
After that, try simply "make" (or "make -f Makefile.dst" if you
didn't copy it to Makefile). If there are problems, go through
the Makefile using the instructions in item (C) below (for
Imakefiles) as a guide. Most things are similar. NOTE: Without,
imake, Makefile.dst cannot use C preprocessor directives to
configure itself based on the config.h file created by the
configure script. You will have to adjust definitions accordingly,
using the values in config.h (for your system!) as a guide.
B. Running the configure script will generate a file "config.h" from
the template "config.h.in". It may not get everything right for
your system. If it doesn't, you'll have to edit "config.h" and
make the required changes. Each definition has a short comment
indicating the conditions under which it should be defined.
Be sure to run xmkmf/imake again after changing it.
One fairly common problem is that configure will decide that you
need to link with -lresolv and define NEED_LRESOLV in config.h.
This happens when the test program resolv.c either doesn't compile
or compiles but doesn't work properly. Normally, this means that
your system requires linking with libresolv.a to force DNS
nameserver lookups. If you don't have /usr/lib/libresolv.a (or some
local variant), or if resolv.c compiles and runs properly, you
shouldn't define NEED_LRESOLV.
C. The Imakefile uses definitions in "config.h" to setup a Makefile
that is correct for your system. In addition, there are several
parameters that you can change by editing the Imakefile directly,
although you shouldn't need to do so.
Note that the Imakefile uses the notation "/**/#" for comments --
the "/**/" is for cpp (so the "#" isn't interpreted as a
directive), the "#" is for make. You need to delete both parts to
"uncomment" a definition, unless it is explicitly indicated that
the "#" should be left for cpp (as in "#define").
o Set BINDIR, LIBDIR, and MANDIR if needed to change where the
stuff goes on "make install" and "make install.man".
o Xarchie uses the "ad2c" program to compile-in a set of default
resources. You should get a copy of ad2c in this distribution,
otherwise you may have to adjust the definition of AD2C. To not
compile-in any fallback resources, comment out the #include of
Xarchie.ad.h in file xarchie.c (see comments there).
o Change CDEBUGFLAGS as appropriate to override the default
debugging or optimization levels. You might also want to add a
definition of CC, or you can type "make CC=gcc", for example.
o By default, xarchie compiles the manpage into a set of C strings
that are used for the Help browser. If you simply can't handle
all that string data, comment out all the HELP definitions.
o If you understand and want to trace at the Prospero level,
uncomment the definition of PDEBUG.
o By default, xarchie uses some widgets from the Free Widget
Foundation. These can cause problems with some versions of X that
get upset about widget subclassing.
- The MultiList widget allows multiple selections in the browser.
To *not* use it, comment out the "#define MultiList" line (that
is, add "/**/" at the front or delete it).
- The FileChooser widgets allows you to use a hierarchical
filesystem browser for specifying filenames. It also uses
directory reading routines that may have portability problems.
To *not* use it, comment out the "#define FileSelector" line.
Finally, you may want to change defaults in Xarchie.ad. In
particular, you should set the default archie host as appropriate
for your location, and possibly the hostWeights also. See the man
page for details, and see the Imakefile regarding "ad2c".