CC=${CC:-gcc}
CXX=${CXX:-g++}
+# defaults
+PREFIX=/usr/local
+
+# option parsing
+for option; do
+ if [ "${option%%=*}" = '--prefix' ] ; then
+ PREFIX="${option#*=}"
+ fi
+done
+
cat <<EOF
Welcome to Notmuch, a system for indexing, searching and tagging your email.
fi
cat <<EOF
-On a modern, package-based operating system such as Debian, you can
-install all of the dependencies with the following simple command
-line:
+With any luck, you're using a modern, package-based operating system
+that has all of these packages available in the distribution. In that
+case a simple command will install everything you need. For example:
+
+On Debian and similar systems:
sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
-On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of the
-package names may be different, (such as "devel" in place of "dev").
+Or on Fedora and similar systems:
+
+ sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel
+
+On other systems, similar commands can be used, but the details of the
+package names may be different.
EOF
if [ $have_pkg_config -eq 0 ]; then
to install pkg-config with a command such as:
sudo apt-get install pkg-config
+Or:
+ sudo yum install pkgconfig
But if pkg-config is not available for your system, then you will need
to modify the configure script to manually set the cflags and ldflags
CXX = ${CXX}
# The prefix to which notmuch should be installed
-prefix = /usr/local
+prefix = ${PREFIX}
# The directory to which emacs lisp files should be installed
emacs_lispdir=${emacs_lispdir}
GMIME_CFLAGS = ${gmime_cflags}
GMIME_LDFLAGS = ${gmime_ldflags}
-# Flags needed to compile and linke against talloc
+# Flags needed to compile and link against talloc
TALLOC_CFLAGS = ${talloc_cflags}
TALLOC_LDFLAGS = ${talloc_ldflags}