1 [[!meta title="Bulding MCabber from Sources"]]

     2 

     3 A short explanation on how to use Mercurial to keep up-to-date with the latest

     4 development version of mcabber. More info on Mercurial can be found on

     5 <http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/>.

     6 

     7 [[!toc]]

     8 

     9 # Download

    10 

    11 First, clone the Mercurial reporitory:

    12 

    13     % hg clone http://mcabber.com/hg/ mcabber-hg

    14 

    15 # Prepare

    16 

    17 Go into the `mcabber` directory, and build the `configure` script (you will need

    18 the _autotools_ software installed):

    19 

    20     % cd mcabber-hg/mcabber

    21     % ./autogen.sh

    22 

    23 Now you can use the configure script, as usual. You can use `--enable-hgcset` to

    24 add the Mercurial changeset to mcabber's version string.

    25 

    26     % ./configure --enable-hgcset

    27 

    28 If you want to install in your own home-directory instead of system-wide, append

    29 `--prefix=$HOME`:

    30 

    31     % ./configure --enable-hgcset --prefix=$HOME

    32 

    33 # Compile

    34 

    35 To compile the source code, run:

    36 

    37     % make

    38 

    39 And to install it (you will probably need to be root to do this if you are doing

    40 a system-wide installation):

    41 

    42     % make install

    43 

    44 # Update

    45 

    46 If you want to update mcabber source code later, just pull from the repository,

    47 update and compile again:

    48 

    49     % hg pull -u

    50     % make

    51     % make install

    52