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Installing send-pr by itself
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Installing
send-pr
by itself
Install
send-pr
by using the following steps (you may need root access in order to change
the ‘aliases’
file and to install send-pr).
- Unpack the distribution
into a directory which we refer to as srcdir.
- Edit the file ‘Makefile’
to reflect local conventions. Specifically, you should edit the variable,
‘prefix’,
to alter the installation location. The default is ‘/usr/local’.
All files are installed under ‘prefix’
(see the following paragraphs and examples).
- Run, using the following
command.
make all install [ info ] [ install-info ] [ clean ]
The targets mean the following:
- all
builds send-pr
and install-sid
- install installs
the following:
- install-sid
send-pr
into ‘prefix/bin’
- send-pr into
‘prefix/man/man1’
- site,
the list of valid categories
for the Support Site from which you received send-pr,
installed as ‘prefix/lib/prms/site’
- send-pr.el
into ‘ prefix/lib/emacs/lisp’
- info
(optional) builds ‘send-pr.info’
from ‘send-pr.texi’
(‘send-pr.info’
is included with this release)
- install-info
(optional) installs ‘send-pr.info’
into ‘prefix/info’
- clean
(optional) removes all intermediary build files that can be rebuilt
from source code
Run, using the following
command.
install-sid your-sid
your-sid is
the identification code you received with send-pr.
send-pr
automatically inserts this value into the template field, ‘>Submitter-Id:’.
If you’ve downloaded send-pr
from the Net,
use ‘net’
for this value.
Place the following line
in your path pointing to ‘prefix/lib/emacs/lisp/default.el’,
or instruct your users to place the following line in their ‘.emacs’
files:
(autoload 'send-pr "send-pr" "
918
;Submit a Problem Report." t)
Create a mail alias for
the Support Site from which you received send-pr,
and for every site with which you wish to use send-pr
to communicate.
Each alias must have a suffix
of ‘-prms’.
The Support Site(s) will
provide the correct addresses where these aliases should point. For instance,
edit your mail aliases file to contain something like the following lines.
# support sites; for use with send-pr
cygnus-prms: bugs@cygnus.com # Cygnus Solutions
bumblebee-prms: bumblebugs@bumblebee.com # Bumblebee Inc.
mycompany-prms: bugs@my.company.com (if you use prms locally)
send-pr
automatically searches for these aliases when you use the following input.
send-pr cygnus send-pr bumblebee send-pr site...
send-pr
also uses site
to determine the categories of problems accepted by the site in question
by looking in the following location.
prefix/lib/prms/site
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