Hello Vince!

05.08.2004 at 13:40, Vince Coen wrote to Martin Foster:

 VC> 05 Aug 04 07:46, you wrote to Kai Richter:

 KR>>> much more newbe to programming and compiling. I read a lot and
 KR>>> more than one time, got smapi and hpt running, but messed up with
 KR>>> versions after compiling fastlst-current with Gerrit Kuehn's help
 KR>>> (thanks). [Thanks for help! ;) ]

 MF>> I've tried many times to compile FastLst (Linux) but never succeeded.
 MF>> Perhaps you, or someone else, could post instructions how to do it
 MF>> please.

 VC> Get latest fastlst and smapi .tar's i.e., mine is :

 VC> === Cut ===
 VC> -rw-------    1 vince    vince      424033 Jun 10 13:11 
 VC> fastlst-stable-040609.tar.gz
 VC> -rw-------    1 vince    vince      183301 Jun 10 13:11 
 VC> smapi-stable-040602.tar.gz
 VC> === Cut ===

Can't find those but I managed to get these:

fastlst-stable-latest.tar.gz
smapi-stable-latest.tar.gz

 VC> In a directory such as /home/[yourusername]
 VC> run:
 VC> tar xfvz fastlst-stable-040602.tar.gz
 VC> cd fastlst/include
 VC> tar xfvz ../../smapi-stable-040602.tar.gz
 VC> cd smapi
 VC> make -f makefile.lnx
 VC> cd ../..
 VC> configure
 VC> make

OK, done that.

 VC> Now I got the following warnings but I have ignored them:

 VC> === Cut ===
 VC> fastlst.cc:19:1: warning: "__USE_GNU" redefined
 VC> In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:29,
 VC>                  from fastlst.cc:18:
 VC> /usr/include/features.h:239:1: warning: this is the location of
 VC> the previous 
 VC> definition
 VC> fastlst.cc:20:1: warning: "_GNU_SOURCE" redefined
 VC> :4:1: warning: this is the location of the previous
 VC> definition
 VC> === Cut ===

Yeah, me too.

I now have a fastlst binary and have done a "strip fastlst" to
reduce its size.

Many thanks indeed for giving me the solution to a very long-standing problem.

One of these days I'll get the hang of this compiling caper ;-))

Regards,
Martin

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