need help with the MAQ installation

[mandova]

the MAQ page wrote:
Install Maq
There are two ways to compile maq. The first way is to use the GNU building systems. Simply type:

./configure; make; make install
you can compile and install maq. Three executables, `maq', `maq.pl' and `farm-run.pl', will be copied to /usr/local/bin by default.

Alternatively, you could compile with:

make -f Makefile.generic
and manually copy the three executables to the destination directory. Modification to `Makefile.generic' is sometimes needed on different architectures.

Maq is better compiled and used on a 64bit machine because it frequently uses 64bit integers. Compiling as a 32bit executable should work but the speed will be affected.


Apparently I don't how to use a GNU building system, so I tried the "alternative" and it wouldn't work. I don't really understand this guide, and I suspect I'll need to install a GNU building system anyway?

I'm so sorry if this sounds naive/familiar but...since "maq" is too short I couln't even get it work as a search key word...

THANKS!!

[raela]

What was the problem when you tried to configure? I just installed maq today and actually had to do a step before that.. instead, try:
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
If all of that goes off without a hitch, great! Move ahead to make install. If not, please post exactly what happens. If it's a lot of output, for example on configure, that fails.. run
./configure &> errors.txt
Then find a place to upload errors.txt, or paste the comments into a pastebin (google pastebin and select one).

Good luck.

[mandova]

What was the problem when you tried to configure? I just installed maq today and actually had to do a step before that.. instead, try:
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
If all of that goes off without a hitch, great! Move ahead to make install. If not, please post exactly what happens. If it's a lot of output, for example on configure, that fails.. run
./configure &> errors.txt
Then find a place to upload errors.txt, or paste the comments into a pastebin (google pastebin and select one).

Good luck.

THX!!
well, all of the cmd lines above I tried gave out (translated) something like " '.' is not an internal or external command, nor executable program, nor batch file"....
Am I missing some prerequisite, being the system I use or the compiling environment??

[raela]

Even if you try autogen.sh? Make sure you're in the same directory as it.. for example, if you just did tar zxvf maq.tar.gz, you then cd to maq/ (or whereever it went).. also, you might as well type 'ls' and make sure you see autogen.sh, then try ./autogen.sh

[mandova]

Even if you try autogen.sh? Make sure you're in the same directory as it.. for example, if you just did tar zxvf maq.tar.gz, you then cd to maq/ (or whereever it went).. also, you might as well type 'ls' and make sure you see autogen.sh, then try ./autogen.sh

I see the problem: I'm using windows vista...and I decompressed it with winrar...