Installing SRILM 156 in Ubuntu 8.04

0. untar the source distribution in SRILM_DIR

1. set the environment variable
bash> export SRILM=SRILM_DIR

2. check the gcc version and the location of tcl library
e.g.
bash> gcc --version
bash> which gcc
bash> whereis tcl

3. edit the common/Makefile.machine.i686-gcc4

bash> chmod u+rwx Makefile.machine.i686-gcc4
bash> emacs -nw Makefile.machine.i686-gcc4
# GCC_FLAGS = -mtune=pentium3 -Wreturn-type -Wimplicit
# CC = /usr/local/lang/gcc-4.2.2/bin/gcc $(GCC_FLAGS)
# CXX = /usr/local/lang/gcc-4.2.2/bin/g++ $(GCC_FLAGS) -DINSTANTIATE_TEMPLATES
GCC_FLAGS = -mtune=pentium3 -Wreturn-type -Wimplicit
CC = /usr/bin/gcc $(GCC_FLAGS)
CXX = /usr/bin/g++ $(GCC_FLAGS) -DINSTANTIATE_TEMPLATES
...
#ADDITIONAL_INCLUDES =
ADDITIONAL_INCLUDES = -I/usr/include/tcl

4. Make
bash> make 1> logFile 2> errFile

5. That is it