About my Faq (was Re: Installation)

[Paul Johnson]

The new ON-Line Faq already has the /usr/include omitted from OTHERINCDIRS,
so pooh on you!  The procedure described in the FAQ worked on 2 machines
for me, so I'm thinking it is OK, but still don't know for Solaris. 

(I admint, I had that INCLUDE  in the old  faq, back from the olden
days.)

Concering the online faq, which is at
 http://valinux.pols.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq.html
I don't have trouble when hitting "back to document" and "how do I"
in the faq manager display.  Could someone else try it? Just choose
the "Faq Manager: click here to edit" 
and roam around and see if it works for you.

I previously made a mistake in setup of the faq manager and it
was not remembering names correctly, but I think I've got that dog
whooped now and all you people who are eager to contribute material
should feel free to do so.  It will remember the name of the original author
of the item and, if another person edits that item, it should still
show the name of the original author.

If I get some feedback, I'll make a decision about moving the whole
FAQ into this format. Its much easier to update and maintain. The old
one was getting to be very tedious to manage the table of contents
and a complicated outline and all kinds of targets.  If I get all this stuff
moved in correctly,
then I can print out a postscript version, since some people prefer
that, although I don't understand why (don't tell me either.:)

Paul J

On Sun, 10 May 1998, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> >>>>> "ZI" == Zafar Iqbal <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> ZI> it would be helpful to update not only the Makefile
> ZI> instructions but also FAQ's and README files, because they
> ZI> instruct the beginner who downloads the binary versions to give
> ZI> pathnames for OTHERINCDIRS, OTHERLIBDIRS.
> 
> For a binary distribution of Swarm 1.1, and depending on your system
> configuration, you may need to use these variables to locate the X11
> libraries.  The README is ok.
> 
> Offhand, the only the thing wrong I see with the FAQ is that it has
> examples that show "-I/usr/include/".  You definitely don't want
> to do that, as it will bypass important GCC headers.
> 
> 
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