[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Installation on Mac OS X bug?
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:12:50 -0500
This sounds good. If the steps in this message are confirmed it can be
made into a README for Mac installation.
John
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 04:47:31PM -0500, Greg Williams wrote:
> Hi Bert,
> I did some further testing because I realized that I had modified my
> mac some. However, following the below steps will install the latest
> liblouisxml tar ball from http://www.abilitiessoft.com (which no
> longer seems to include the Mac directory either). I should have
> taken a closer look at Michel's instructions earlier; it would have
> clarified things.
> NOTE: I am assuming that you already have liblouis installed in /usr
> or /usr/local.
> 1. Download pkg-config from http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/releases/
> Uncompress it and switch to the newly created directory. Install it
> with ./configure; make; sudo make install. This will install it in /
> usr/local by default.
>
> 2. Add the following line to your ~/.profile (you can change the
> system profile if you prefer):
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig"
> This line tells configure where to look for the *.pc files for
> installed libraries. You should check to make sure that both of these
> directories exist. Both of these directories will be needed because
> libxml2 comes installed in /usr/lib, and the liblouis library will by
> default install in /usr/local/lib.
>
> 3. Download the latest liblouisxml tarball from
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com or svn; decompress it; switch to the
> liblouisxml directory and run
> ./configure; make; sudo make install
>
> This works on my mac, and so hopefully should work for you. Although
> I am still running 10.5 on a PPC, the standard installation shouldn't
> have changed that much. Let me know if you run into any problems.
> Greg
>
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com
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