From: Richard Adams (vbebzaic@toffi.ngt-wise.pl)
Date: Sun Oct 08 2000 - 10:08:14 EEST
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, Charles E. Gelm wrote about , Re: installing ax25-utils-2.1.42a:
> Hi, Richard:
>
> Thanks. I will print the information you sent and try to
> understand what it means. Meanwhile... ;-)
>
> Without seming to be rude: ;-)
>
> To get to where you got that information,
> one has to have INSTALL'ed and then 'make'ed.
>
> I don't think I have the INSTALL yet. :-|
Yes you should have a file called INSTALL its a text file and is included
in the archive along with.
BUGS
CHANGES
COPYING
MAINTAINERS
README
TODO
VERSION
They all have -rw-r--r-- permissions, basicly meaning Readable files.
>
> Everyone:
> How can you tell which files are the 'documentation' files?
> When I run
> ls -l
> Some filenames are 'colored'.
> Are the documentation files white?
> Shell files seem to be yellow.
As per above.
To answer more or your questions in other mails;
You wrote:
> Now, I am suspecting that I should be in the root directory,
> '/', when I issue the 'tar -xzf ax25-utils-2.1.42a.tar.gz'.
NO, it makes no differance, However if you use tar xvzf you would see how
and where the file is unpacked.
> I think that is was in the
> /usr/local
> directory when I un'tar'ed the *utils* file.
If that be the case then you will have a directory named.
/usr/liocal/ax25-utils-2.1.42a/
>
> Perhaps if I had gotten the *utils* INSTALL'ed correctly,
> I would not have gotten errors during the 'make's. :-|
No, the utils are not created untill you make them, then you install them,
In another mail you wrote:
> In file included from hdrvcomm.h:40,
> from sethdlc.c:45:
> /usr/include/linux/hdlcdrv.h:13: parse error
> In file included from hdrvcomm.h:40,
> from sethdlc.c:45:
> /usr/include/linux/hdlcdrv.h:46: parse error
> make[1]: *** [sethdlc.o] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
As to why the above is happening i dont know, maybe the answer will show up
when you do take a look at /usr/local/ax25-utils-2.1.42a/lib/config.h
I wrote and told you howto get round this problem last month.
My reply is archived:
http://hes.iki.fi/archive/linux-hams/200009/0006.html
I suggest you take a look once again at the other replys on this subject as
well.
In yet another mail:
> Perhaps I can do without whatever wants sethdlc.c
> and not compile that executable. I can live without
> hdlc compatibility. I'm only trying to get my LinFBB
> to communicate with a KISS'ed TNC
Yes you can do without them.
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