From f121c348e13c90316b3c83ee41d4bf4e9cf015b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dockes Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:11:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message *** --- src/INSTALL | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/INSTALL b/src/INSTALL index ed005e6c..b1d8f8fe 100644 --- a/src/INSTALL +++ b/src/INSTALL @@ -11,10 +11,9 @@ A more complete version of this document can be found at http://www.recoll.org Installing Recoll - There are currently no binary packages, so you will need to build Recoll - from source before installing it. + Building from source - Prerequisites + Prerequisites At the very least, you will need to download and install the xapian core package (I am currently using xapian version 0.8.5), and the qt runtime @@ -35,7 +34,7 @@ Installing Recoll * PDF files: pdftotext is part of the Xpdf package. * Postscript files: pstotext. - Building + Building Recoll has been built on Linux (redhat7.3, mandriva 2005), FreeBSD and Solaris 8. If you build on another system, I would very much welcome @@ -58,6 +57,19 @@ Installing Recoll to fix the "-L/usr/local/lib -lxapian -liconv" piece, depending on where your libs are installed. Then run 'qmake recoll.pro' in there. + Using binary packages + + The binary versions are just compressed tar files of a build tree, where + only the useful parts were kept (executables and sample configuration. + + The executable binary files are built with a static link to libxapian and + libiconv, to make installation easier (no dependencies). However, this + also means that you can't change the versions of xapian and iconv which + are used. + + After having untarred the file, you can proceed with installation as if + you had built the package from source. + Installation Execute installrecoll targetdir, in the root of the source tree. This