Re: Help with compilation

[Danny Backx]

"Harold W. Baldwin" wrote:
> This is a follow-up on my previous message, but first a question:
> 
> I presume that one has to do "make install" as the superuser.  Is this
> correct?  (That is, in fact, what I did, but I'd like to confirm that I
> needed to do it that way.)

In theory this is installation dependent, in practice the answer is usually yes.
Unless you've changed ownership of /usr/local to yourself or so.

> After installing ncurses-devel and getting oleo-1.99.16 as you suggested,
> I did "./configure --without-motif", and then "make install".  Initially I
> had problems, but apparently it was because the partition I was working on
> was about 98% full.  After deleting some junk and moving some files to
> another partition, I got the usage down to about 91% and then had no
> problems configuring and installing.  (Hope this information will be of
> some use.)

Glad you made it through. Don't hesitate to ask more or present
your feature wish list.

        Danny
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