Re: [Opensync-users] Makefile missing

[Ashley J G. <agi...@pu...>]

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 09:59, Vizo Allman wrote:
> Hey:
> I am very new to this so bear with me. I have recentlty downloaded
> multisync-0.90.18, it seems that the Makefile is not not being created
> in synce_synce directory. From what I have read so far I think this is
> supposed to be created by the configure file in the multisync-0.90.18
> directory.  I am using Freebsd can anyone point me in the right
> derection to generate this file?
> Thanks
> -vizo-

Yes, configure should create the makefile. Generally speaking, with most 
automake-based projects, the steps are:

untar the source (eg: "tar xvzf multisync-0.90.18.tgz")
cd into the new directory (eg: "cd multisync-0.90.18"
run "./configure"
run "make"
run "make install"

You might need to supply extra options to configure if it can't find libraries 
etc, you can run "./configure --help" to get a list of options.

You should verify that each step completes successfully before proceeding to 
the next (ie, no point running "make install" if the "make" failed).

I hope that helps you get started. I don't know if there are any tricks to 
getting it all going on FreeBSD or whether it all "just works" out of the 
box.

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