Re: 'error in definitions' on make install

"Mikkel Eriksen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alright, make install succeeded now. Thanks :)

Still getting segfaults, though, but I'll try with debugging on, and
take a closer look at my document and see what's what.

Mikkel

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Colin Klipsch <[email protected]> wrote:
> I compile Lout by hand on my own MacOS X system all the time, so maybe I can
> help.
>
> On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Mikkel Eriksen wrote:
>
>> Well, I got ftp://ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/lout-3.37.tar.gz and
>> there were no problems unpacking it. I'd say it would be pretty rare
>> for a malformed file to unpack and look alright.
>>
>> The edited parts of my makefile are as follows:
>>
>> OSUNIX  = 0
>> OSDOS   = 0
>> OSMAC   = 1
>
> Set OSUNIX=1, OSMAC=0.
>
>> PREFIX  = /usr
>> BINDIR  = $(PREFIX)/bin
>> LOUTLIBDIR      = $(PREFIX)/share/lout/lib
>> LOUTDOCDIR      = $(PREFIX)/share/lout/doc
>> MANDIR  = $(PREFIX)/share/lout/man
>
> I'd recommend setting PREFIX equal to /usr/local instead, but this is up to
> you.  To install in /usr, you'll need to run the "make install*" steps under
> 'sudo'.  (You might also need 'sudo' for /usr/local, but that depends on the
> permissions, owner, and group of that directory on your machine.)
>
> Note that the parent directories of LOUTLIBDIR and LOUTDOCDIR must already
> exist before you install.
>
> -- Colin K.
>
>
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