Re: [RP] Re: CVS newbie... quick walk through?

[Shawn Betts]

Simon White <address@hidden> writes:

> 29-Jan-03 at 13:27, Henrik Enberg (address@hidden) wrote :
> > Simon White <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > I did this and checked out the CVS stuff, but the configure script
> > > appears to be missing? What have I missed?
> > 
> > You must run the autogen.sh script.  cd to the toplevel directory and
> > type "./autogen.sh".  You'll need the various GNU build tools
> > installed.
> 
> Great! That worked thanks. Which leads me to wonder how you get on to
> having a universal configure script in a tarball for multiple platforms,
> but that's on the list of "things to do when suddenly you find yourself
> in front of a Linux machine with loads of free time" which is only
> slightly about "when hell freezes over" ;-)

Hi Simon,

The configure script that ratpoison uses was generated by autoconf in
conjunction with automake. They are gnu projects so if you want more
info, you should head over to www.gnu.org. I found them a bit
challenging at first, but once you get the hang of them they're REALLY
NICE!

Shawn