- PSFTP, Plink, PuTTYgen) using this script. To use it, change
- into the `unix' subdirectory, run `./configure' and then `make'.
-
- - unix/Makefile.gtk is for non-autoconfigured builds. This makefile
- expects you to change into the `unix' subdirectory, then run `make
- -f Makefile.gtk'. Note that Unix PuTTY has mostly only been tested
- on Linux so far; portability problems such as BSD-style ptys or
- different header file requirements are expected.
-
- For the graphical utilities, Gtk+-1.2 is required. Gtk+-2.0 is not
- yet supported.
-
- There is an `install' target; note that by default it tries to
- install `man' pages, which need to be built using Halibut first --
- see below.
+ PSFTP, Plink, PuTTYgen) using this script. To use it, change into
+ the `unix' subdirectory, run `./configure' and then `make'. Or you
+ can do the same in the top-level directory (we provide a little
+ wrapper that invokes configure one level down), which is more like
+ a normal Unix source archive but doesn't do so well at keeping the
+ per-platform stuff in each platform's subdirectory; it's up to you.
+
+ Note that Unix PuTTY has mostly only been tested on Linux so far;
+ portability problems such as BSD-style ptys or different header file
+ requirements are expected.
+
+ - unix/Makefile.gtk and unix/Makefile.ux are for non-autoconfigured
+ builds. These makefiles expect you to change into the `unix'
+ subdirectory, then run `make -f Makefile.gtk' or `make -f
+ Makefile.ux' respectively. Makefile.gtk builds all the programs but
+ relies on Gtk, whereas Makefile.ux builds only the command-line
+ utilities and has no Gtk dependence.
+
+ - For the graphical utilities, Gtk+-1.2 and Gtk+-2.0 should both be
+ supported. If you have both installed, you can manually specify
+ which one you want by giving the option '--with-gtk=1' or
+ '--with-gtk=2' to the configure script. (2 is the default, of
+ course.) In the absence of either, the configure script will
+ automatically construct a Makefile which builds only the
+ command-line utilities; you can manually create this condition by
+ giving configure the option '--without-gtk'.
+
+ - pterm would like to be setuid or setgid, as appropriate, to permit
+ it to write records of user logins to /var/run/utmp and
+ /var/log/wtmp. (Of course it will not use this privilege for
+ anything else, and in particular it will drop all privileges before
+ starting up complex subsystems like GTK.) By default the makefile
+ will not attempt to add privileges to the pterm executable at 'make
+ install' time, but you can ask it to do so by running configure
+ with the option '--enable-setuid=USER' or '--enable-setgid=GROUP'.
+
+ - The Unix Makefiles have an `install' target. Note that by default
+ it tries to install `man' pages; if you have fetched the source via
+ Subversion then you will need to have built these using Halibut
+ first - see below.