cvs installer - no .configure file !

[frague]

Hy,

I discovered VegaStrike on OpenGL website, and after on VS website, and I would play with it... So I download the Linux Installer : after 2H of DL with on a CVS tree, script dies.

Ok, lets do it by hand : then I see no .configure in vegastrike folder, and the install procedure (enclosed in INSTALL file) tells to use it...

I think it's realy a good idea to make a real OpenSource game, but is it possible to do pretty installer ?

I use a Mandrake 10.0 Linux.

Cheers to all

frague

[ace123]

Rather than complain about the installer not working, please post some output as well as what you did when it happened.

The installer should not dowload the data again if it is already there, and if it starts doing that, just hit ctrl-c and run ./linux_vegastrike-0.4.2.sh --help to have it do a specific task.

But again, I can't really help you if I don't know what the error is or when it happened, so please copy the last screen or two of output. (run it again if you need to)

Also, you complain about a lack of a pretty installer, but it takes time to do this as well as a risk that the user won't be able to run it because he doesn't have ncurses installed or because his distro doesn't have the dialog utility.

[hellcatv]

we're working on a nice linux binary--should help placate you--just don't have time to release it At the moment--will do soon

[MamiyaOtaru]

Ok, lets do it by hand : then I see no .configure in vegastrike folder

make -f Makefile.cvs should create ./configure for you

[martin]

That line should be mentioned in INSTALL. I keep stumbling on how to generate configure every time as well.

[Guest]

you don't have to do it like this.
Makefile.cvs calls just standard procedure of running the GNU Autotools. of course, you can do this by hand

you will have to run the autotools for nearly every project distributed over cvs. learn about it!

(of course it couldn't do any harm if this was mentioned in the INSTALL file. )

[Guest]

or someone could put an autogen.sh file into the repository to call these tools