2 Some installation notes for gwave2, a version of gwave using the Gtk2
3 toolkit by way of guile-gnome-platform.
8 Guile version 1.8 (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html)
10 g-wrap (http://www.nongnu.org/g-wrap/)
11 guile-gnome-platform (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/)
14 GNU Plotutils-2.4.1 or later with patches
15 (optional, only used for ploting/exporting)
16 GNUPlot (optional, only used for ploting/exporting)
19 tested configurations:
22 gtk2-2.12.8-2.fc8 (Standard with F8+updates)
26 guile-gnome-platform-2.16.1-1sgt
28 (Note that in order to build from source, you also need the -devel
29 versions of those RPMs)
33 CAUTION: Use only the version of guile-gnome-platform and g-wrap known
34 to work with whatever version of guile you have. Mixing incompatibile
35 versions of guile-gnome-platorm, g-wrap, and guile definitely fails.
37 I recommend verifying that guile, gtk2, and guile-gnome-platofrm all
38 work individualy before trying to build gwave using them. Gtk and
39 guile-gnome-platform both come with "test-gtk" programs in their
40 respective examples directories which are ideal for this purpose. **
41 Please try this before reporting guile-gtk related problems with
44 *** I strongly recommend installing Guile and Guile-gtk the same way
45 *** with the same prefix: either build both from source, installing
46 *** both into /usr/local, or install both using your favorite packging
47 *** system (RPM, DEB, or other). Mixing packages and local-installs
48 *** can be made to work, but often requires a lot of additional
51 Note on Gnome and guile-gnome-platform: Although the name of the
52 required Gui package is "guile-gnome-platform", it can be built
53 without installing all of gnome, so long as the Gtk2 (gnome toolkit)
54 is installed. All that GWave requires is the Gtk2 portions of
60 Gwave requires external programs in order to export postscript and
61 bitmap files for hardcopy or documentation use. Either Gnu Graph
62 (from Gnu plotutils) or GnuPlot can be used.
64 GNU graph is part of the GNU plotutils package. The old berkely/sysv
65 "graph" program sometimes found on commercial unixes doesn't work.
66 Configure attempts to locate GNU graph and ignore other programs named
67 "graph" that may be found in $PATH. If the automatic detection
68 doesn't work, try somthing like this:
69 GRAPH="/path/to/gnu/graph" ./configure ...
71 GNU plotutils 2.4.1 contains bugs that cause it to generate bad
72 postscript output and make it prone to crashing on plots with more
74 Applying "plotutils-2.4.1.patch" included in the gwave distribution
75 and recompiling graph fixes these problems.
80 Running gwave without installing it.
81 ------------------------------------
83 After compiling, you may wish to test gwave before doing a "make install."
85 Gwave normally looks for its guile support files beneath
86 $PREFIX/share/guile in the standard guile module structure; the
87 complete pathnames would be somthing like
88 $PREFIX/share/guile/app/gwave/cmds.scm
90 If gwave can't find any of its startup guile code, it aborts with a
91 moderately useful error message.
93 The GWAVE_GUILE_DIR environment variable can be used to make gwave
94 look in an alternate directory for these guile files. Set
95 GWAVE_GUILE_DIR to the full pathname of the src directory in this
96 distribution, for example if this file is called
97 /home/tell/build/gwave2/INSTALL, set
98 GWAVE_GUILE_DIR=/home/tell/build/gwave2/src
105 These are generic installation instructions.
107 The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
108 various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses
109 those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
110 It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
111 definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
112 you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file
113 `config.cache' that saves the results of its tests to speed up
114 reconfiguring, and a file `config.log' containing compiler output
115 (useful mainly for debugging `configure').
117 If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
118 to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
119 diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
120 be considered for the next release. If at some point `config.cache'
121 contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it.
123 The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program
124 called `autoconf'. You only need `configure.in' if you want to change
125 it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
127 The simplest way to compile this package is:
129 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
130 `./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're
131 using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
132 `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute
135 Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some
136 messages telling which features it is checking for.
138 2. Type `make' to compile the package.
140 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
143 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
146 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
147 source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
148 files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
149 a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is
150 also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
151 for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get
152 all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
153 with the distribution.
155 Compilers and Options
156 =====================
158 Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
159 the `configure' script does not know about. You can give `configure'
160 initial values for variables by setting them in the environment. Using
161 a Bourne-compatible shell, you can do that on the command line like
163 CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure
165 Or on systems that have the `env' program, you can do it like this:
166 env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure
168 Compiling For Multiple Architectures
169 ====================================
171 You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
172 same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
173 own directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
174 supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the
175 directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
176 the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the
177 source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
179 If you have to use a `make' that does not supports the `VPATH'
180 variable, you have to compile the package for one architecture at a time
181 in the source code directory. After you have installed the package for
182 one architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring for another
188 By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
189 `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
190 installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
191 option `--prefix=PATH'.
193 You can specify separate installation prefixes for
194 architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
195 give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH', the package will use
196 PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
197 Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.
199 In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
200 options like `--bindir=PATH' to specify different values for particular
201 kinds of files. Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
202 you can set and what kinds of files go in them.
204 If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
205 with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
206 option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
211 Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
212 `configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
213 They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
214 is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System). The
215 `README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the
218 For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually
219 find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,
220 you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
221 `--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.
223 Specifying the System Type
224 ==========================
226 There may be some features `configure' can not figure out
227 automatically, but needs to determine by the type of host the package
228 will run on. Usually `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
229 a message saying it can not guess the host type, give it the
230 `--host=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system
231 type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name with three fields:
234 See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If
235 `config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
236 need to know the host type.
238 If you are building compiler tools for cross-compiling, you can also
239 use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
240 produce code for and the `--build=TYPE' option to select the type of
241 system on which you are compiling the package.
246 If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
247 you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
248 default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
249 `configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
250 `PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the
251 `CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
252 A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
257 `configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
261 Use and save the results of the tests in FILE instead of
262 `./config.cache'. Set FILE to `/dev/null' to disable caching, for
263 debugging `configure'.
266 Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
271 Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. To
272 suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
273 messages will still be shown).
276 Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
277 `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
280 Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
283 `configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options.