New to Planner Devel, having lots of issues/problems with builds

["David A. Rivkin, PhD" <davidarivkin yahoo com>]

Hello Planner developers,

I was hoping to make some changes to Planner as part of an experiment in project algorithmics and pulled the CVS stored code to build it.  Sadly I am working on a WinXP box with Cygwin and GCC.  I have notice many inconistencies in the "Build" documentation and with the code itself.  I see one place that says just to run ./configure from the main directory yet there is no such file in the CVS tree.  Another document says to run autogen.sh, in libplanner and then in the main directory, but there is no autogen.sh in libplanner directory and the one in the main directory just reports back a long list of "Program not found".  So I descided to pull the Tar ball (1.4.0) and update it with the CVS and sure enough there is a configure program which I ran and it reports a long list of missing dependancies that are not listed in any of the documentation such as Scrollkeeper, DocBook XML and XSTLs etc.
Kind of fustrating at
 this point, especially since Scrollkeeper source does not build on WinXP without crashing all the time.
Once I got past all of these and fixed Scrollkeeper and after successfully running configure, I can build some things but I see that libplanner will not properly build  due to invalid search paths for includes and libs always seeking someone elses home directly which seems somehow coded into the library, which of course I dont have.  It is something like /home/mfawer/deve/lib and the like.  I dont have it exactly there but you get the point.  I tried to edit libplanner-1.la and libxml-1.la to fix this but it just keeps coming back.
What is the deal?

Also, why is there no documentation on what build options (such as the mono support, how to enable the database, and EDS (whatever that is), dotnet (whatever that is) etc? on the website?

Thanks!
David Rivkin, PhD
david rivkin ieee org

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