From 1b52275fa2ad321adb48a59b7307d87fb125d5ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernd Porr Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:30:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added the installtion instructions from the Wiki and removed reference to Debian woody packages. I had recently quite a lot of e-mails asking about the permissions of the comedi files and every time the the problem was that the udev rules were installed in /usr/local/etc. --- INSTALL | 26 +++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 7022d7f..9c04dd2 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,25 +1,25 @@ +Configure with one of the following commands: +# For udev: "./configure --with-udev-hotplug=/lib --sysconfdir=/etc" +# For old hotplug: "./configure --enable-etc-hotplug --sysconfdir=/etc" +This makes sure that the udev files are installed in /etc and not +in /usr/local/etc. -Configure with './configure'. './configure --help' will give the -configuration options. If the configure script does not exist -(if you checked comedilib out from cvs for example), it can -be generated by running './autogen.sh'. The autoconf, automake, -autoheader, etc. tools are required to generate the configure -script (automake version >= 1.5 recommended). +'./configure --help' will give the configuration options. + +If the configure script does not exist (if you checked comedilib out +from cvs for example), it can be generated by running './autogen.sh'. +The autoconf, automake, autoheader, etc. tools are required to +generate the configure script (automake version >= 1.5 recommended). Compile using 'make'. If this doesn't work, make sure you have the -basic tools installed to compile. If you can successfully compile +basic tools installed to compile. If you can successfully compile other things, consult the author, as he has probably made a mistake. Install using 'make install' as root. This installs the files: - /usr/lib/libcomedi.so.0.3 + /usr/lib/libcomedi.so.0.x /usr/include/comedi.h /usr/include/comedilib.h and other things... -If you run Debian GNU/Linux, comedilib is packaged as the packages -libcomedi0 and libcomedi-dev. These are available as part of woody. - To write programs that use comedi, look at examples in the demo/ and the documentation in the doc/ directory. - - -- 2.26.2