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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-02-20 22:37:18 +0100 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-02-20 22:37:18 +0100 |
commit | 4cf919bcdfc752edc0d33fab48010b91029ccf5f (patch) | |
tree | a1aacf5461be2496554ae61b6ea462ce506bdf9c /README-hacking | |
parent | d7226387a9fb07ec3de3913f8128a31ba95deeb2 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-4cf919bcdfc752edc0d33fab48010b91029ccf5f.tar.xz |
Now that we use GIT, not cvs, rename README-cvs.
* README-hacking: Renamed from...
* README-cvs: ...this.
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diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dd2783754 --- /dev/null +++ b/README-hacking @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +-*- 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. |