Can we get an INSTALL doc?

[heegemcgee]

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Guys,

Love the cuetools, use them all the time to manage my library. I recently migrated from Ubuntu to CentOS, and there isn't a Cuetools package in the base or EPEL repositories, which required that i compile from source. "No sweat," I thought, "I've compiled from source many times, this won't be a big deal."

Well, I guess I overestimated my compiling skills. It threw me off immediately that there wasn't a "configure" script. The hint i picked up on was configure.ac, which contained information on how to generate the configure script. Long story short, i had to find a HOW TO on using autoconf / automake to get things going. I got make to start compiling, but was almost undone by a "Symbol changes size" error... fortunately, a forum discussion between two distro maintainers gave the hint i needed - Bison was required.

My request is this: Please include an INSTALL doc that outlines the steps to use autoconf / automake to compile. Your source package differs from most, which simply require you to "configure /make / make install". I would also request that this document outline exactly which binaries are required.

--heege

[svend]

Sorry for the late reply.

It has been a while since I have compiled this project. I ran autoreconf --install which produced a working configure script. If this works for you, I can add these instructions to the docs.

[gene-pavlovsky]

I, too, was surprised to not find the customary INSTALL file, or a list of required libs, or a list of platforms this tool compiles on. I was able to compile and install on Cygwin, had to install bison and flex besides the common tools such as automake, autoconf I already had installed.

autoreconf # It failed, suggesting to run "automake --add-missing".
automake --add-missing
autoreconf # Success this time.
./configure && make && make install