Changeset 35655 for main

Timestamp:

2021-10-21T14:42:23+13:00 (3 years ago)

Author:

davidb

Message:

Changed from http to https for svn co; text also updated to reflect the more streamlined way GS3 now handles compilation of gnome-lib

File:

• main/trunk/greenstone2/ext/README.txt (modified) (3 diffs)

main/trunk/greenstone2/ext/README.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
 
 *******
-* gnome-lib
+* gnome-lib (a key library from wvWare)
 *******
 
-For most Linux distributions it is also necessary to check out the
-'gnome-lib' extension and compile this up *first* before compiling the main
-source code -- be it Greenstone2 or Greenstone3 you are looking to work
-with, as the latter makes use of Greestone2's building code, and get's
-checked out as 'gs2build'.  
+For Greenstone2, for most Unix distributions it is also necessary to
+manually check out the 'gnome-lib' extension and compile this up
+*first* before compiling the main source code.
 
-Starting in this 'ext' folder you can do this by:
+For Greenstone3 (svn co), the default settings for compilation
+(set in ints top-level build.properties) means this is done
+automatically for you.
 
-  svn co http://svn.greenstone.org/gs2-extensions/gnome-lib/trunk/src gnome-lib
+Starting in this 'ext' folder the manual sequence is:
+
+  svn co https://svn.greenstone.org/gs2-extensions/gnome-lib/trunk/src gnome-lib
   cd gnome-lib
   source devel.sh
@@ -18 +20 @@
 
 Assuming this completes successfully, now return to your top-level
-Greenstone directory and follow the instructions for compiling that.
+Greenstone2 directory and follow the instructions for compiling that.
 
 ALTERNATIVELY ... you could try the pre-bundled binary version.
@@ -24 +26 @@
 On MacOS:
 
-  curl http://svn.greenstone.org/gs2-extensions/gnome-lib/trunk/gnome-lib-darwin-intel.tar.gz \
-   > gnome-lib-darwin-intel.tar.gz
+  curl https://svn.greenstone.org/gs2-extensions/gnome-lib/trunk/gnome-lib-darwin-intel.tar.gz \
+    > gnome-lib-darwin-intel.tar.gz
   tar xvzf gnome-lib-darwin-intel.tar.gz