Almagest Stars - Planetarium program for the Almagest star catalog
http://home.comcast.net/~erniew/astro/almagest.html


Installation Instructions
=========================

To build and install the program, enter the following three commands at
a shell prompt, after cd'ing to the directory containing the program
files.

   ./configure
   make
   make install

The first command runs a script called 'configure' that creates make
files tailored to your system.  This script was automatically generated
by GNU Autoconf 2.59 based on the configure.ac and Makefile.in files
in the distribution.

The configure script accepts a number of options.  You can find out what
they are with

   ./configure --help
   
Most of these aren't particularly useful for building Almagest Stars,
but one that may be of interest is the --prefix option.  This sets the
directory where the program will be installed.  By default, it's set
to /usr/local, so that the program itself will end up in /usr/local/bin
and its data files will be in /usr/local/share/almstars.

The third command, 'make install', may require you to have administrator
privileges, since (by default, at least) it writes files in the /usr
hierarchy.  If you're not a superuser at the moment, you can become one
for the purposes of this command using 'sudo',

   sudo make install
   
After running 'make' and before 'make install', you can test the program
by entering

   src/almstars
   
which will run the program from where it was built.
