[Watford] Compiling axfr

[Neel Upadhyaya]

Hi Walter,

It's also worth noting that if you've downloaded this for some
extended feature the package provides you'll need to make sure that
it's enabled by default.  A quick check with:
./configure --help
Should tell you what features are enabled by default.

If during the make the compile bails out then post the output here and
we can show you how to dissect the output of make and gcc.

Good Luck.

--Neel

On 4/25/06, Matt Marsh <matt at mattmarsh.net> wrote:
> Walter,
>
> > I have downloaded the above and want to install on my debian system. I have
> > 0 experience with compiling and installing programs and although I have
> > tried every option in the install text file that comes with the archive, I
> > cannot get it to install.
>
> I haven't come across "axfr" before, and a quick google came up with
> lots of DNS related stuff (if that's the same thing?) but I couldn't
> actually see a piece of software with that name... could you point us
> to where we can get hold of the source that you're talking about?
>
> > The first step is to make sure the extraction goes into the correct folder
> > eg: /use/local/bin which it does. Then I checked the access/execute
> > permissions and made sure they are 'full rights' with chmod.  But running
> > ./config keeps showing missing aclocal, autoheader, autoconfig etc.  I have
> > the log file I can attach if someone is able to assist.
>
> When you say that the "first step is to make sure the extraction goes
> to the correct folder eg: /usr/local/bin", are you talking about
> extraction of source files? or of binaries? Usually the procedure
> is to extract the source files into a directory somewhere in your
> home directory or /tmp and then once the executables are built they
> get put in the final destination eg. /usr/local/bin.
>
> I'm guessing that the source archive you have for this software
> follows the fairly typical "configure - make - make install"
> procedure of building/installation... if so, then here's what
> should basically be going on:
>
> - First unpack the source somewhere convinient, like in your home
>   directory (of a regular non-root user). If the archive has been
>   created properly it will usually create a directory for itself
>   and put all the source files in there.
>
> - Now go into that directory and (with your regular non-root user)
>   run ./configure
>   That should check your system to make sure that you have all the
>   right tools and libraries to build the software and produce some
>   configuration information about your machine that the compiler
>   etc can make use of.
>
> - Next, again with your regular user you run "make" which should
>   build everything.
>
> - Finally, switch to root and in the same directory run
>   "make install" which should move all the binaries that have been
>   built to their correct locations.
>
> Now, the configure step above requires the use of some tools
> that it seems are not currently installed on your system. You
> should be able to fetch the tools you need by doing the following
> as root: "apt-get install autoconf automake"
>
> Try re-running ./configure after installing those packages and
> see if it gets you any further.
>
> Matt
>
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