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rrthomas / recode

Charset converter tool and library
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Installing recode on termux in android #30

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ghost commented 3 years ago

Hi rrthomas

Could you take a look at this issue with building recode on termux (details here). I'm trying to install tuxi. It looks like it cannot be installed unless it gets root permission. Any way to work around it?

rrthomas commented 3 years ago

There's nothing specific to recode here. Just like any normal configure script, set a suitable --prefix, in this case, one that does not need root permissions.

First, you should really be using this repo, not Pinard's (unfortunately I only took over the project some years after he died without appointing a successor).

Secondly, I just tried building the current git master on termux; I had one problem, because I could not install Locale::gettext, which help2man needs, but after hacking around that (to build the man page), I was able to run make install with no problem.

rrthomas commented 3 years ago

(I do not know whether it is impossible to install Locale::gettext on Termux, in which case I would welcome a patch to recode to cope with this case, or whether there is some trick to install the package.)