- unix/configure is for Unix and GTK. If you don't have GTK, you
should still be able to build the command-line utilities (PSCP,
- PSFTP, Plink, PuTTYgen) using this script. To use it, change
- into the `unix' subdirectory, run `./configure' and then `make'.
+ 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
utilities and has no Gtk dependence.
- For the graphical utilities, Gtk+-1.2 and Gtk+-2.0 should both be
- supported. In the absence of either, the configure script will
+ 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.
+ 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