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- $Id: buildsource.sgml,v 1.1 2002/04/04 06:48:37 hal9 Exp $
+ $Id: buildsource.sgml,v 1.2 2002/04/06 05:07:28 hal9 Exp $
Written by and Copyright (C) 2001 the SourceForge
Privoxy team. http://www.privoxy.org/
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<para>
- There are several ways to install <application>Privoxy</application>.
+ To build <application>Privoxy</application> from source,
+ autoheader, autoconf,GNU make (gmake), and, of course, a C
+ compiler are required.
</para>
<para>
- To build <application>Privoxy</application> from source,
- autoconf and GNU make (gmake) are required. Source is available as gzipped
- tar archives. For this, first unpack the source:
+ When building from a source tarball (either release version or
+ nightly CVS tarball), first unpack the source:
</para>
<para>
</screen>
</para>
-
<para>
- For retrieving the current CVS sources, you'll need the CVS
- package installed first. Note CVS source is development quality,
- and may not be stable, or well tested. To download CVS source:
+ For retrieving the current CVS sources, you'll need CVS installed.
+ Note that sources from CVS are development quality, and may not be
+ stable, or well tested. To download CVS source:
</para>
<para>
<screen>
autoheader
autoconf
- ./configure (--help to see options)
- make (the make from gnu, gmake for *BSD)
+ ./configure # (--help to see options)
+ make # (the make from gnu, gmake for *BSD)
su
- make -n install (to see where all the files will go)
- make install (to really install)
+ make -n install # (to see where all the files will go)
+ make install # (to really install)
+ </screen>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ If you have gnu make, you can have the first four steps
+ automatically done for you by just typing
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ <screen>
+ make
</screen>
</para>
+<para>
+ in the freshly downloaded or unpacked source directory.
+</para>
+
<para>
Redhat and SuSE src and binary RPMs can be built with
<quote><command>make redhat-dist</command></quote> or