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| author | John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> | 2009-10-31 00:08:34 -0400 |
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| committer | John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com> | 2009-10-31 00:10:01 -0400 |
| commit | 435677eea4db0ed5f974d91e569a7c2b2d825df3 (patch) | |
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| parent | 2149a8e773cb8bf84aa803ee12373b4861d03714 (diff) | |
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Added another FAQ item to README-1ST
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@@ -1,37 +1,49 @@ - README FIRST!!! +=============================================================================== To build this code after doing a Git clone, run: - $ acprep update + $ ./acprep update If you try to configure/build on your own, you are almost certainly going to -run into problems. +run into problems. In future, you can run this command again and it will keep +you updated with the very latest version. +=============================================================================== F.A.Q. + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Q: The build fails saying it can't find utf8.h - A: You didn't run acprep update. + A: You didn't run ./acprep update. + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - - Q: The build fails saying it can't find boost_regex + - Q: Configure fails saying it can't find boost_regex A: Look in config.log and search for "boost_regex", then scroll down a bit until you see the exact compile error. Usually it's failing because your include directory is different from anything acprep is expecting to - see. It could also be failing because your Boost library have a custom - "suffix" on them. + see. It could also be failing because your Boost libraries have a + custom "suffix" on them. Let's say your Boost was installed in ~/boost, and every library has the suffix '-xgcc42'. This is what you would run: CPPFLAGS=-I$HOME/boost acprep --boost=xgcc42 update + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + - Q: Configure fails saying it can't find MPFR + + A: You need MPFR version 2.4.0 or higher. This version does not come with + most Debian distributions, so you will need to build it. + + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Q: Something else fails, or Ledger crashes on startup @@ -45,3 +57,5 @@ run into problems. (gdb) bt Send me that backtrace output, and the output from "ledger --version". + + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |