From 010daec776637fee35fb44f218cc6d63cdbaabe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 08:38:15 +0000 Subject: Put more concentrated unix install help already at the top, with a note that you might need to be root to use 'make install'. --- docs/INSTALL | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/INSTALL') diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index 9b517943a..e662a003e 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -10,21 +10,32 @@ Curl has been compiled and built on numerous different operating systems. The way to proceed is mainly divided in two different ways: the unix way or the windows way. -If you're using Windows (95, 98, NT) or OS/2, you should continue reading from -the Win32 or OS/2 headers further down. All other systems should be capable of -being installed as described below. +If you're using Windows (95/98/NT/ME/2000 or whatever) or OS/2, you should +continue reading from the Win32 or OS/2 headers further down. All other +systems should be capable of being installed as described below. UNIX ==== - 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: + A normal unix installation is made in three or four steps (after you've + unpacked the source archive): ./configure + make + make test (optional) + make install - If you have OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure + You probably need to be root when doing the last command. + + 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 + + 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 + you have OpenSSL installed in e.g /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure like: ./configure --with-ssl @@ -54,33 +65,11 @@ UNIX env CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \ ./configure - If your SSL library was compiled with rsaref (usually for use in - the United States), you may also need to set: + If your SSL library was compiled with rsaref (usually for use in the United + States), you may also need to set: LIBS=-lRSAglue -lrsaref - (from Doug Kaufman ) - - Without SSL support, just run: - - ./configure - - Then run: - - make - - Use the executable `curl` in src/ directory. - - To install curl on your system, run - - make install - - This will copy curl to /usr/local/bin/ (or $prefix/bin if you used the - --prefix option to configure) and it copies the man pages, the lib and the - include files to suitable places. - - To make sure everything runs as supposed, run the test suite: - - make test + (as suggested by Doug Kaufman) KNOWN PROBLEMS @@ -109,7 +98,7 @@ UNIX they're executable and set to appear in the path *BEFORE* the actual (but obsolete) autoconf and autoheader scripts. - OPTIONS + MORE OPTIONS Remember, to force configure to use the standard cc compiler if both cc and gcc are present, run configure like -- cgit v1.2.3