Re: [FreeWRL] Version 1.20.3 of FreeWRL released.

[Aubrey J. <ag...@al...>]

freewrl/README.html consists only of a link to
http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/faq.html.

http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/faq.html#ChapterLinux :

  2 Installing Freewrl On Linux and other Unix machines.

    This section attempts to answer questions about installs on Linux
    and other computers.

    First, get FreeWRL. The site (FreeWRL Main Page
    http://www.crc.ca"/) has links to CRC-created packages, and to
    packages maintained by others.

That link is bad; http://www.crc.ca"/ is not a valid URL.
Furthermore, http://www.crc.ca has no mention of freewrl that I can
find.  So not only is the link syntactically bad, its correction
points to the wrong site.

Back to http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/faq.html:

  The FreeWRL FAQ
  Table of contents
  1. Introduction
      1.1 FreeWRL Conformance
      1.2 Maintainer and FreeWRL Contact
      1.3 Version
      1.4 Mailing list
      1.5 Contributions
  2. Installing FreeWRL on Linux and other Unix machines
      2.1 Hints on installing from source
      2.2 Hints on installing a binary distribution
      2.3 Problems running FreeWRL standalone
      2.4 Problems running FreeWRL in a Browser
  3. Installing FreeWRL on Apple OS X
  4. Installing FreeWRL on other Operating Systems
  5. MIDI and Propellerheads Reason integration
  6. FreeWRL Q and A (assumes FreeWRL installed) 

Where are the instructions for how to install from source?  The only
appearance of "perl Makefile.PL; make install" is under "If you do not
have Motif ..."  What am I supposed to do if I have Motif?

The adequate documentation which formerly was included in the source
distribution has been removed; and the FAQ is obviously unchecked and
inadequate.

Assuming that "perl Makefile.PL; make" is still the right approach for
Fedora-7 (with 2008-04-27 CVS):

  bash-3.2$ perl Makefile.PL
  This install is running on a Linux based computer
  SELINUX=NO
  ARCH=i686
  Linux flavour: RedHat
  adding -fno-stack-protector flag to compiles
	  WARNING: can not find  FONTSDIR in the conf file, or on the system: returning: ISNOTDEFINED
  bash-3.2$ make
  Makefile:805: *** missing separator.  Stop.

  bash-3.2$ uname -s -r -v -m -p -i -o
  Linux 2.6.23.15-80.fc7 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:29:10 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
  bash-3.2$ rpm -q gcc perl
  gcc-4.1.2-27.fc7
  perl-5.8.8-28.fc7

Freewrl seems to be getting more and more broken; is its development
being abandoned?  Is there some other VMRL viewer I should be using?