Some of the hurdles I went through in the past couple of days:
The initial Install.sh program refused to go beyond asking me my
language preference. I ran it as ./Install.sh, sh Install.sh, /bin/sh
Install.sh, etc. It finally ran with "bash Install.sh" for some reason...
Then the compilation hit upon a problem with expat and the XML parser -
it did not help that I have two versions of perl pointing to two
different c compilers... I discovered the --without-PACKAGE switch in
configure much too late.... Given that expat and XML::Parser are in
fairly common use today, wouldn't it be better to just indicate that
those packages are required and to not include them in the actual
distribution?
Some of the Makefiles require explicit /package/expat and/or
package/cpan links and removing any mention of expat and the XML parser
is actually quite a bit harder than Greenstone makes it sound on the WEB
page.
Also, I had to copy manually the expat_external.h file to the include
path. I am not sure why.
Sorry to sound grouchy on my first message to the list. I am not trying
to blame anyone, but perhaps some of the details from my own experience
will be helpful to others and save them some time.
Alain