[bt-devel] making installation easier

Mirko Kloppstech bt-devel@crosswire.org
Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:22:05 +0100


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> I think the best way to link to Sword is statically linking. With shared
> linking problems like unresolved references may occur, if the user updates
> his shared Sword lib. Static linking is the best way.
> We should change the SPEC file to include the Sword locale files
> additionally to the sword.conf file. So there's no need to install the
> Sword library itself.
> Providing a basic RPM with some module is ok, too. This way BibleTime cvan
> be shipped together with the KJV as standard base package.
>
>
> In 1.2 we should add the ability to create Personal commentarioes using the
> SWModule::crewate functions. So there's no need to download the personal
> commentary.
>
> Joachim

That's a strong argument for linking statically. However, I personally, not 
using rpm's, solved my problems by installing the modules to ~/.sword/mods.d 
and ~/.sword/modules. This solved my problems of having to search for the 
modules every time I reinstall sword.

Mirko
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