The bad news
People generally (and rightly) think an application-level project like
locus should be platform-independent. I'm sorry, but it's not so - the
only supported platform is Linux. I don't believe kernel version matters,
but gcc version does.
The reasons
First, I can't write portable installation scripts - the stuff I see in
GNU configure just makes my head spin.
If you know about some simple, gentle tutorial on how to do it, let me
know.
Second, locus is not written in C, but in C++ - and C++ at the level I want
to use is not a portable language. This is supposed to get better
now that we have a standard, but somebody's got to implement it (on your
system, in your compiler) first.
The solution
Of course, if you're willing to spend some effort, nothing is lost.
The administrator's way
is to get GNU tools - at least gcc, and if you don't want to rewrite
makefiles, then also make, bash and sed.
The programmer's way
is to port locus for your favorite C++ compiler. It has been ported before
(originally even from DOS :-) ), so it should be fairly easy. Naturally,
I'm very interested in your success/failure.
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