Re: [Pan-users] Installation help on Suse 8

[Patrick Barendregt]

i use ./configure --prefix=/usr just like it sais in the document you
made.
To be sure i tried it on the same machine with a complete new install of
Suse 8 (i'm at home sick:))
With the same result a pan file in usr/bin the only stange (?) thing is
the file is allmost 3 mb big but perhaps thats normal ????
I followed exactly the instructions in the document with only one
difference i didn;t use the bz2 files but the gz files....
as as i can see i have no more rrors in the compile the pan file is in
the /usr/bin dir
so it must be something else whehi try to start the file it takes a
minute or so and then it's gone with no warning or what so ever,,,,,
I'm new to c programming and not to new to linux but i'm used to compile
cause i'm an experienced mainframe programmer so it's not all to new to
me.........

Anyone a suggestion ????
 

Op di 24-09-2002, om 10:56 schreef Toby Inkster:
> On 24 Sep 2002 10:47:40 +0200
> Patrick Barendregt <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | I tried to execute that file but nothing happens...
> | Can someone tell what i'm doing wrong here or do i forget something...
> 
> I'm guessing the problem is that by default, most distributions put programs 
> in /usr/bin, but when compiling from source, things usually go in 
> /usr/local/bin (because they were compiled locally).
> 
> This means that you'll probably have *two* copies of Pan installed. To check 
> my theory, type:
> 
> ls -l /usr/bin/pan /usr/local/bin/pan
> 
> If this is the case, then to start the new version of pan, type 
> "/usr/local/bin/pan" instead of just "pan".
> 
> In the future when you compile things, instead of "./configure" you might 
> want to run this command instead:
> 
> ../configure --prefix=/usr
> 
> And this will cause the new program to be installed into /usr/bin instead of 
> /usr/local/bin.
> 
> -- 
> Toby A Inkster BSc ARCS
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