
Readme file for trn under Linux
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trn3.1 and later compiles out-of-the-box with no patches needed if you take
the calculated defaults from Configure and 'make'.

I needed to upgrade to libs4.4.1 and bash 1.13beta to get Configure to not
hang totally.  Switching libs *or* bash versions was not enough.  I had to
upgrade both...

It compiled fine here with the following configuration:
	Slackware 1.1.1

There are a few files here to use as templates.

	config.sh-local  - a Linux config.sh for local reading 
	config.sh-nntp   - a Linux config.sh for reading via nntp
	dot-trnrc        - sample init file for trn to set command    
                               line switches quickly.  Set a $TRNINIT
                               environment variable to point to it.

A low blood-pressure way to tweak your system (rather than fight the
bugs in bash1.12) is to take the config.sh files above, hand edit them
to set the paths to what you want, then do the following:
	'Configure -S'
	'make depend'
	'make'
	'make install'

Hand-editing config.sh to do anything other than tweak paths is
not recommended.

					Vince Skahan
					vince@victrola.wa.com

