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Feel free to download this version of freeWAIS-sf.

But be aware:

- freeWAIS-sf 2.2.1{1,2,3,4} is *not* tested on platforms
  other than SunOS 5.6 and Linux
- freeWAIS-sf 2.2.1{0,1,2,3,4} is *not* supported.

Perhaps *you* would like to volunteer???


Anyway, some additional hints on the installation won't hurt.

This is how I do the installation of freeWAIS-sf and the Perl
interface Wais.pm on my debian-linux-2.2 box:


 1. freeWAIS-sf

    After unpacking I invoke `Configure' by means of the following
    script:

      #! /bin/sh
      
      ##
      ## Variables for `Configure'
      ##
      
      # version
      version=2.2.14
      # installation prefix
      fwsfprefix=/usr/sw/wais/$version
      
      ## 
      ## -- editing the following stuff shouldn't be necessary --
      ##
      
      test -d $fwsfprefix/bin      || mkdir -p $fwsfprefix/bin
      test -d $fwsfprefix/lib      || mkdir $fwsfprefix/lib
      test -d $fwsfprefix/man/man1 || mkdir -p $fwsfprefix/man/man1
      test -d $fwsfprefix/man/man3 || mkdir $fwsfprefix/man/man3
      test -d $fwsfprefix/info     || mkdir $fwsfprefix/info
      
      sh ./Configure -der \
        -Dcc=gcc \
        -Doptimize=-O3 \
        -Dprefix=$fwsfprefix \
        -Dprivlib=$fwsfprefix/lib \
        -Dman3dir=$fwsfprefix/man/man3

    Installation directories are explicitly created because of a bug
    in freeWAIS-sf's Configure. If you don't want to embed Perl
    (needed to embed german grundform reduction) add the option
    `-Dd_embed=undef' to the Configure call.

    Having configured fwsf

      make
      make test
      make install

    in the fwsf source directory should do the rest. You might want to
    install some (perhaps outdated, sorry!) documentation:

      make install.man
      cd doc/SF
      makeinfo fwsf
      cp fwsf.info* $fwsfprefix/info

    That's it!


 2. Wais.pm and friends

    Download the latest version, at this time from
    ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/Perl/ and unpack.

    Follow the instructions in file INSTALL distributed with Wais.pm.