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Install by build: Configure file missing

Open lamyergeier opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

It is mentioned in the readme that

If you download a stable release, these are the commands that will get you up and running:

tar xf light-x.yy.tar.gz
cd light-x.yy/
./configure && make
sudo make install

./configure does not exists in the latest release!

lamyergeier avatar Jan 06 '22 14:01 lamyergeier

See https://github.com/haikarainen/light#manual

However the latest development branch requires some extras. Clone the repository and run the autogen.sh script. This requires that automake and autoconf is installed on your system. ...

PeterlitsZo avatar Jan 10 '22 07:01 PeterlitsZo

I hope it helps you.

PeterlitsZo avatar Jan 10 '22 08:01 PeterlitsZo

If the issue was indeed due to cloning the repo instead of downloading a release and forgetting to run autogen.sh, we can consider this closed, right?

ajgae avatar Jun 09 '22 16:06 ajgae

We need to update readme to reflect the changes, or preferably go back to a simpler build system without autoconf

perkele1989 avatar Jun 09 '22 19:06 perkele1989