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Subject: Re: Installing mew (editing Makefile.in)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:32:26 +0900
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ken <gebser@speakeasy.net> writes:
> Thanks very much, Ryo.  I hope mew works.  I've just downloaded and
> untarred mew-5.1 and know I need to edit the values of some variables in
> Makefile.in:

No, you _shouldn't_ be editting Makefile.in, you should be running the
configure script which will do all that stuff for you...

E.g.:

   ./configure

or:

   ./configure --prefix=$HOME

to install everything underneath your home directory.

The configure script will derive all those various specific variables
using the prefix you give it.

-Miles

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