Ubuntu 20.04.3 server can Apache be made to render md documents like on GitHub?

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:14:29 -0500, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hey there,
>
>Bo Berglund wrote:
>
>>In actual fact there is no file named configure in the checkout and
>>such does not exist on the system either. This is what I get:
>>
>>$ ./configure && make && make install
>>-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
>>$ which configure
>>$ (empty line)
>
>It sounds like you need the build-essential program to be installed.
>

Thanks, but:

These are the first commands I used to install with:

Apt install:
sudo apt install build-essential libtool automake autoconf
sudo apt install libmarkdown2-dev apache2 apache2-dev

As you can see build-essential is already installed...

Any other suggestion?
Do I have to reboot Winows-style to make stuff work after installation?

Or maybe:

There is a different outline in INSTALL and README.md.
I followed INSTALL and failed....

<DISCOUNT_DIR>
README.md says:

% autoreconf -f -i
% ./configure --with-apxs=<APXS_PATH> --with-discount=<DISCOUNT_DIR>
% make
% make install

And here I do not understand what the % marks are for, but I used the remainder
of the first line and got this:

$ autoreconf -f -i
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
configure.ac:9: installing './compile'
configure.ac:10: installing './config.guess'
configure.ac:10: installing './config.sub'
configure.ac:5: installing './install-sh'
configure.ac:5: installing './missing'

So something happened at least, next line:

./configure --with-apxs=<APXS_PATH> --with-discount=<DISCOUNT_DIR>

Here I think I am supposed to replace <APXS_PATH> and <DISCOUNT_DIR>
 with something completely unknown by me, what are these?

Not really a cook-book for Dummies, I guess...

But I really want to get markdown parsing onto the webserver!


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden