wget/INSTALL

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		   GNU Wget Installation Procedure
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0. Preparation
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To build and install GNU Wget, you need to unpack the archive (which
you have presumably done, since you are reading this), and read on.
Like most GNU utilities, Wget uses the GNU Autoconf mechanism for
build and installation; users familiar with compiling GNU software
should feel at home.

Note that instructions in this file do not pertain to installation on
Windows, for which see windows/README.

1. Configuration
----------------

Before compiling Wget, you need to "configure" it using the provided
`configure' script.  Configuration serves two purposes: it enables the
compilation system to inspect certain features of your operating
system for more robust compilation, and it enables you to choose which
features you want the resulting Wget to have.

The simplest way to configure Wget is by running the configure script
provided with the distribution without additional arguments.  After
running some programming-related tests, it will create the Makefiles
needed to compile Wget.  If you have experience with Autoconf-based
build systems, you may use the standard arguments such configure
scripts take, the most important ones being:

  --help                  display a help message and exit

  --prefix=PREFIX         install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
                          (/usr/local by default)
  --bindir=DIR            user executables in DIR (PREFIX/bin)
  --infodir=DIR           info documentation in DIR [PREFIX/info]
  --mandir=DIR            man documentation in DIR [PREFIX/man]

For example, if you are not root and want to install Wget in your home
directory, you can use:

    ./configure --prefix=$HOME

Options beginning with "--disable", such as `--disable-opie' or
`--disable-ntlm', allow you to turn off certain built-in functionality
you don't need in order to reduce the size of the executable.  Options
beginning with "--with" turning off autodetection and use of external
software Wget can link with, such as the SSL libraries.  Recognized
"--enable" and "--with" options include:

  --without-ssl           disable SSL autodetection (used for https support)
  --with-libssl-prefix=DIR search for libssl in DIR/lib
  --disable-opie          disable support for opie or s/key FTP login
  --disable-digest        disable support for HTTP digest authorization
  --disable-ntlm          disable support for HTTP NTLM authorization
  --disable-debug         disable support for debugging output
  --disable-nls           do not use Native Language Support
  --disable-largefile     omit support for large files
  --disable-ipv6          disable IPv6 support
  --disable-rpath         do not hardcode runtime library paths

You can inspect the decisions made by configure by editing the
generated Makefiles and the `src/config.h' include file.  The defaults
should work without intervention, but if you know what you are doing,
editing the generated files before compilation is fine -- they will
not be regenerated until you run configure again.

configure will try to find a compiler in your PATH, defaulting to
`gcc', but falling back to `cc' if the former is unavailable.  This is
a reasonable default on most Unix-like systems, but sometimes you
might want to override it.  The compiler choice is overridden by
setting the `CC' environment variable to the desired compiler file
name.  For example, to force compilation with the Unix `cc' compiler,
invoke configure like this:

    ./configure CC=cc

This assumes that `cc' is in your path -- if it is not, simply use
CC=/path/to/cc instead.  Note that environment variables that affect
configure can be set with the usual shell syntax `VAR=value
./configure' (assuming sh syntax), but can also be specified as
arguments to configure, as shown above.  The latter method, while
being specific to configure, works unmodified in all shells.

Environment variables that affect `configure' include: CFLAGS for C
compiler flags, CPPFLAGS for C preprocessor flags, LDFLAGS for linker
flags, and LIBS for libraries.

Barring the use of --without-* flags, configure will try to autodetect
external libraries needed by Wget, currently only the OpenSSL
libraries.  If they are installed in the system library directories or
in the same prefix where you plan to install Wget, configure should be
able to autodetect them.  If they are installed elsewhere, use the
`--with-libNAME' option to specify the root directory under which
libraries reside in the `lib/' subdirectory and the corresponding
header files reside in the `include/' subdirectory.  For example, if
the OpenSSL libraries are installed under the /usr/local/ssl prefix,
use `--with-libssl=/usr/local/ssl'.

Sometimes external libraries will be installed on the system, but the
header files will be missing.  This often happens on Linux if you
forget to install the "-devel" or "-dev" package that corresponds to
the library and that is typically *not* installed by default.  In that
case configure will not find the library and you will not be able to
use the features provided by the library until you install the devel
package and rerun configure.  If you believe you have the necessary
headers, but configure still fails to detect the library, please
report it as a bug.

2. Compilation
--------------

To compile GNU Wget after it has been configured, simply type make.
Wget requires a compiler and standard library compliant with the 1990
ISO C standard, which includes the vast majority of compilation
environments present on systems in use today.

After the compilation a ready-to-use `wget' executable should reside
in the src directory.  At this point there is no formal test suite for
testing the binary, but it should be easy enough to test whether the
basic functionality works.

3. Installation
---------------

Use `make install' to install GNU Wget to directories specified to
configure.  To install it in a system directory (which is the
default), you will need to be root.  The standard prefix is
"/usr/local/", which can be changed using the `--prefix' configure
option.

The installation process will copy the wget binary to $PREFIX/bin,
install the wget.info* info pages to $PREFIX/info, the generated
manual page (where available) wget.1 to $PREFIX/man/man1, and the
default config file to $PREFIX/etc, unless a config file already
exists there.  You can customize these directories either through the
configuration process or making the necessary changes in the Makefile.

To delete the files created by Wget installation, you can use `make
uninstall'.