On Nov 25, 8:08am, Ulrich Quill wrote:
} Subject: Re: FVWM: FVWM2 for Sun SPARC
}
} On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Juan Jose Casero wrote:
} > I recently downloaded and compiled FVWM2 for Linux without any problems.
} > However, I haven't been able to install it under Solaris 2.5. After
} > changing Fvwm.tmpl to reflect my environment I got it to compile but it
} > was giving a warning about "language F not recognized". I ignored these
} > warnings since the program seemed to compile anyway. However, when I
} > tried "make install" I got lots of "Error code 2" messages. Does anyone
} > know what I should do to get it to install correctly? Any help would be
} > much appreciated.
} >
}
} The problem you describe seems to be the same that I very often have when
} trying to install packages on our Solaris 2.5 machines.
} In my case the problem is the call of the 'install' program in the
} Makefile.
} Most often (and, indeed, also in the fvwm Makefiles), install is called
} in the following way (I only show the important options):
}
} install -c demo /usr/local/bin/demo
}
} installing program 'demo' from the current directory to the file
} /usr/local/bin/demo.
} Unfortunately, our install program (which is a shell script for Sys V)
} doesn't recognize this version.
} You have to say:
}
} install -c /usr/local/bin demo
}
} So a possible solution for the problem is to go through all the Makefiles
} and change each 'install' call accordingly.
}
} Hope that helps,
}
} Ulrich
Another solution is to a) put "/usr/ucb" in your path before "/usr/sbin",
or edit the Makefile(s) to explicity use /usr/ucb/install [assuming you
have the /usr/ucb stuff installed]. Also, some gnu software installs the
GNU install program. That one is also compatible with the existing
makefiles.
-Bill
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Received on Mon Nov 25 1996 - 10:10:33 GMT