Requirements

You need: You do _not_ need:

Installation

If you use a precompiled binary package, go directly to step 6.


1. Untar the tarball and go into the toplevel directory of the LinCVS tarball.

$ tar -zxvf lincvs-1.x.x*.tgz
$ cd lincvs-1.x.x*


2. Set the QTDIR environment variable.

Bourne shell:

$ export QTDIR=path_to_your_qt

C shell:

$ setenv QTDIR path_to_your_qt

Hint for FreeBSD:

If you have installed the official Qt package or port you must set QTDIR to /usr/X11R6.

Hint for SuSE:

Under SuSE the usual QTDIR is /usr/lib/qt3.


3. Create Makefile for your system using qmake.

$ qmake -o Makefile lincvs.pro

If the shell can't find qmake you have to add the path to qmake to your PATH. $ export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH

or

$ setenv PATH $QTDIR/bin:$PATH


4. Make it.

$ make

If you get linker errors (undefined reference) take a look into the trouble shooting section.

And optional (sometimes the install rule generated by qmake contains the strip command, sometimes not)

$ strip lincvs


5. Install it into the AppDir.

$ make install

"Make install" copies all needed files into a subdirectory called LinCVS inside the toplevel directory.

Important hint:

On some systems, "make install" fails, see troubleshooting section for more informations.


6. Now you can move this subdirectory whereever you want (we follow the "AppDir" concept, for more informations see http://rox.sourceforge.net).
Move the startscript template "lincvs" (you can find it in the LinCVS subdirectory) to a directory of your PATH. Adapt the exec call and the path accordingly to the path where you have moved the LinCVS subdirectory. Follow the comments in this startscript.
If you use ROX, you can skip this step.

$ mv path_to_your_LinCVS_subdir/lincvs /usr/local/bin/lincvs
$ $EDITOR /usr/local/bin/lincvs


7. Run it.

ROX users [double]click the LinCVS appdir, all other type lincvs.

Trouble Shooting

On some system, you get the followoing error:

qmake: No such file or directory

this is because some distributors don't put the qmake into path. In this case, search for qmake, add it to your path and try again.


On some systems (for instance SuSE) the install rules in the generated Makefile are wrong because a bug in Qt < 3.0.6. "Make install" try to strip directories.
As workaround open the Makefile and remove all lines containing strip rules for directories (or remove all lines containing strip if you are unsure)... or update your Qt.


On some systems (for instance Debian) the Qt is compiled with QWindowsStyle as plugin. In this case you will get a lot of linker errors (undefined references). Open config/config.h and enable the define QT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWS:

old:
// #define QT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWS

new:
#define QT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWS

Run make again.



In case of running into problems, please contact the mailing list at:

http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/lincvs-users