[CF-Devel] Race info/crossedit/compiling

[Rick Tanner]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, David Hurst wrote:

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      I just remembner something REALLY important. Rick Tanner if you read this
     
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      could you please put a notice on the download page of crossfire. ALL linux
     
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      users must have GTK-dev installed as well as xpmlib!!!. Several people also
     
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      have told me they could not install crossfire and I would bet the bottom
     
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      dollar it is because they didn't have one, or either of these. For debian
     
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      users it is just a simple matter of running apt-get install gtk-dev etc. but
     
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      I don't know how you would do it for redhat etc. I think this is a very
     
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      important issue as it got me =) and it has got me in the past =). A simple
     
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      notice about the requirements would really help with alot of the compiling
     
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      etc. (especially running the configure script!). Thanks.
     
     
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