Re: Difficulty rating of compiling Pingus?

[Ingo Ruhnke]

Erik Søe Sørensen <address@hidden> writes:

> - There's no ./configure, so you have to run autoconf and automake
> yourself - plus aclocal -I m4 (I had to learn the last one from
> Google).
> Was there an easier way around this?

You have to simply run ./autogen.sh, which is a pretty normal
procedure to compile packages from CVS.

> - On my system, the check for clanJPEG failed when ClanLib 0.6 was
> installed in /usr/local . I think the linker tried to use the 0.7
> version of ClanLib instead (or maybe the check just doesn't like
> /usr/local - I don't know).

config.log tells you more what is going wrong.

> - Making Pingus use my localization was another problem; I had to add
> this symbolic link to make it work:
>    $ ls -l /usr/local/share/games/pingus/locale
>    lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 13 Apr  9 01:36
> /usr/local/share/games/pingus/locale -> ../../locale/
> (and of course I had to examine the source a bit to figure out that
> this was what was needed).

This sounds like a bug.

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