[Pan-users] Re: compile ?

[Duncan]

"Travis" <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 07
Dec 2008 00:36:23 -0800:

> I want to compile Pan 0.133 from source on my netbook.  I have Ubuntu
> dual boot with XP. I have just done "apt-get install build-essential"
> that I read about on http://www.linux.com/feature/54945 paragraph 9. 
> The rest of the directions I don't get.  Any help will be appreciated.

Hopefully someone with direct Ubuntu knowledge will step in to fill in 
what I miss as I don't run Ubuntu, but Gentoo.  However...

Having read the linked instructions, it looks like you should now do this 
(with sudo if appropriate):

apt-get build-dep pan

Since both Ubuntu 2008.x versions come with pan 0.132, and the deps 
between it and 0.133 aren't different except that 0.133 allows never 
versions of various dependencies, according to the link, that should 
install the various dev-packages (build-deps), containing headers and etc 
that compiling pan from source requires but that aren't included in the 
normal binary packages because they aren't required for running pre-built 
binaries.

If you don't already have it, you also want to install checkinstall:

apt-get install checkinstall

Once you've done that without error, you should have what's necessary to 
build and install pan.  Now, you need the pan sources tarball itself.  
Download it from pan.rebelbase.com and untar it (this part can be as a 
normal user) to some working directory.

The below assumes you are running the various commands from the pan 
sources dir you just untarred, so cd into it now.

The configure script sets up the build for your system, detecting all 
sorts of stuff like which compiler to use (gcc), where utilities like sed 
are located, what command line options various things need, that sort of 
stuff.

Another bit of configuration that the configure script handles is various 
compile time options.  You can run (normally these work run as a normal 
user)...

./configure --help

... to get a list.  Most things will be auto-detected so you don't need 
to worry about them, but the spelling option is of particular interest 
and I believe you have to specifically enable it or it's disabled.  For 
your first try, I'd say turn on spelling only if the default Ubuntu 
version has it, because otherwise you'll have to download additional 
dependencies.  Better to just do it like Ubuntu does for now and worry 
about spelling later if it doesn't enable it and you want it.

Once you've figured out your configure command line, you'll run it as 
simply

./configure

to use the defaults, or (as appropriate)

./configure --with-whatever --without-whichever


Once the configure script has finished without error, it's time to do the 
actual compile.  This will take some time, particularly on a limited 
resource netbook, so you can set it running and go eat lunch or watch a 
TV program or whatever.  Figure half an hour, possibly more.  (I've no 
idea how long it'll take on that, maybe even two hours, if it's still 
spitting out updates every couple minutes or so, just let it keep 
going.)  As with configure, make should normally be runnable as a user, 
tho there may be occasional access errors but if so it's really a bug 
either with pan or with Ubuntu.  This command is simple:

make

After that completes, assuming success, most people would run make 
install.  However, the Ubuntu way seems to be checkinstall, which will 
make a normal .deb package out of it and install that.  That's the better 
way, since the package manager then knows about it and can handle 
uninstall and etc.  This would again need run as root, with sudo, etc. 
according to the link (and it makes sense since you're installing to dirs 
that aren't normally user writable), but other than that, I don't know 
anything about it since it's Debian/Ubuntu specific.

checkinstall

Hope it helps! =:^)

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