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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-02-20 22:37:18 +0100
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2007-02-20 22:37:18 +0100
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+-*- outline -*-
+
+These notes intend to help people working on the CVS version of
+this package.
+
+* Requirements
+
+Only the sources are installed in the CVS repository (to ease the
+maintenance, merges etc.), therefore you will have to get the latest
+stable versions of the maintainer tools we depend upon, including:
+
+- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
+- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
+- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
+- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
+- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
+- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
+
+As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we
+suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available).
+
+Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
+Valgrind supports your architecture.
+
+Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful,
+later, a plain `cvs update -P && make' should be sufficient.
+
+* First CVS checkout
+
+Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
+this package from CVS. The next step is to get other files needed to
+build, which are extracted from other source packages:
+
+ $ ./bootstrap
+
+And there you are! Just
+
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ $ make check
+
+At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
+and the CVS master copy:
+
+ $ cvs diff
+
+should output no difference.
+
+Enjoy!
+
+-----
+
+Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+02110-1301, USA.