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Unidata / UDUNITS-2

API and utility for arithmetic manipulation of units of physical quantities
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits
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install.sh missing #44

Closed edzer closed 7 years ago

edzer commented 7 years ago

When I try to compile, using

autoconf
./configure

I see:

edzer@gin-edzer:/tmp/UDUNITS-2$ autoconf 
edzer@gin-edzer:/tmp/UDUNITS-2$ ./configure
configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in build-aux "."/build-aux

What did I overlook?

semmerson commented 7 years ago

Are you trying to install from the tarball or from the repository?

edzer commented 7 years ago

From the repo.

On 23 September 2016 16:23:49 CEST, Steven Emmerson notifications@github.com wrote:

Are you trying to install from the tarball or from the repository?

You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/Unidata/UDUNITS-2/issues/44#issuecomment-249206713

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semmerson commented 7 years ago

Execute the command autoreconf -fi and then execute the configure(1) script.

edzer commented 7 years ago

Thanks, that solved it. Was this somewhere documented? I remember asking this question before, but couldn't find the answer. @Robinlovelace, this also solves your problem.

Robinlovelace commented 7 years ago

Many thanks - will test and let you know if I have any issues. Thanks for the software and support!

semmerson commented 7 years ago

@edzer It's not really documented. The assumption is that if you're cloning the repository rather than installing from the tarball, then you know what you're doing and don't need that kind of documentation.

edzer commented 7 years ago

Fair point, but pretty strong assumption about your users.

semmerson commented 7 years ago

@edzer Really? Even though GitHub is for developers and cloning the repository only makes sense for development?

edzer commented 7 years ago

A lot of young people think that installing from source and installing from github is the same thing. Your github page does not make the distinction clear for the case of udunits - a one-liner to the github readme: "if you want to install from source, go to this web site" would do. I'm not young, did decades of C programming, wrote configure.in scripts, but never ran into the need for autoreconf -fi so far.

Udunits is such a good product. I'm surprised it that there are no binary distributions for platforms like ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 64 bits - like there are for netcdf.

semmerson commented 7 years ago

@edger Yeah. We don't have a good mechanism/tool to generate all the different binary package formats.