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INSTALL
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Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
Installation Instructions
*************************
This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 Free
Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
Basic Installation
==================
These are generic installation instructions.
These are generic installation instructions.
The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses
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Compilers and Options
=====================
Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
the `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help'
for details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that the
`configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help' for
details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here
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Compiling For Multiple Architectures
====================================
You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
own directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the
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Installation Names
==================
By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
option `--prefix=PATH'.
option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
You can specify separate installation prefixes for
architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH', the package will use
PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX', the package will
use PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.
In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
options like `--bindir=PATH' to specify different values for particular
options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular
kinds of files. Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
you can set and what kinds of files go in them.
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Optional Features
=================
Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
`configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System). The
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Specifying the System Type
==========================
There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out
automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package
will run on. Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the
_same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out automatically,
but needs to determine by the type of machine the package will run on.
Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the _same_
architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints a
message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
`--build=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system
type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form:
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Sharing Defaults
================
If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share, you
can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives default
values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
`configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
`PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the
`CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
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Defining Variables
==================
Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
environment passed to `configure'. However, some packages may run
configure again during the build, and the customized values of these
variables may be lost. In order to avoid this problem, you should set
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`configure' Invocation
======================
`configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
operates.
`configure' recognizes the following options to control how it operates.
`--help'
`-h'

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Configure can disable stack trace, if you have problems compiling it on your machine. It is also possible to compile without log4cxx.
New Feature: Templates are now used for automated resource management
New Feature: Command line argument evaluation and SmartPointer
Please note that the inheritance changed for the exception classes:
There is no more a diamond like multiple inheritance nos, but
exceptions such as mrw::out_of_range no more inherit from their
std::out_of_range correspondant. All exceptions still inherit from
mrw::exception which inherits from std::exception.
New feature: C++ standard extensions. It provides some features that
are missing in the C++ standard, such as shift operator for string and
container.
The naming of libraries was not intuitive before, e.g. the library
from mrw-c++-0.93 was named libmrw.so.0.0.93 instead of
libmrw.so.0.93.0 and release mrw-c++-1.5 would have been named
libmrw.so.1.0.5. That's a problem with the unconventional version
naming in the libtool. The naming in libtool may make sense only, if
you have several completely independent libraries in the same
package. Now the naming is as it should be, the package and the
library have three digits, increasing the least means no change in
behaviour, e.g. little bugfix, increasing the middle means more
features, but the interface remains backward compatible and increasing
the first number means, that the interface has broken backwards
compatibility, i.e. features have been removed.

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