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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2002-11-30 16:00:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2002-11-30 16:00:10 +0000 |
| commit | 13a903de28a1153cb9f909a8e6abc3def49e8124 (patch) | |
| tree | 12fd4175d274a7c5ab5e7ff644388a413d845cea /docs | |
| parent | a3c14c031e61a76d125159fa9616795b02ddb3b5 (diff) | |
mention CVS-INFO for more info when checked out from CVS
removed old section about problems with old autoconfs, I don't think that
happens anymore
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/INSTALL | 38 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index dd1be4bfe..6b1c4656a 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -28,11 +28,22 @@ UNIX You probably need to be root when doing the last command. + If you have checked out the sources from the CVS repository, read the + CVS-INFO on how to proceed. + If you want to install curl in a different file hierarchy than /usr/local, you need to specify that already when running configure: ./configure --prefix=/path/to/curl/tree + If you happen to have write permission in that directory, you can do 'make + install' without being root. An example of this would be to make a local + install in your own home directory: + + ./configure --prefix=$HOME + make + make install + The configure script always tries to find a working SSL library unless explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default search path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything special. If @@ -71,33 +82,6 @@ UNIX LIBS=-lRSAglue -lrsaref (as suggested by Doug Kaufman) - KNOWN PROBLEMS (these ones should not happen anymore) - - If you happen to have autoconf installed, but a version older than 2.12 - you will get into trouble. Then you can still build curl by issuing these - commands (note that this requires curl to be built staticly): (from Ralph - Beckmann) - - ./configure [...] - cd lib; make; cd .. - cd src; make; cd .. - cp src/curl elsewhere/bin/ - - As suggested by David West, you can make a faked version of autoconf and - autoheader: - - ----start of autoconf---- - #!/bin/bash - #fake autoconf for building curl - if [ "$1" = "--version" ] then - echo "Autoconf version 2.13" - fi - ----end of autoconf---- - - Then make autoheader a symbolic link to the same script and make sure - they're executable and set to appear in the path *BEFORE* the actual (but - obsolete) autoconf and autoheader scripts. - MORE OPTIONS To force configure to use the standard cc compiler if both cc and gcc are |