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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, -Inc. +Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software +Foundation, Inc. This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. @@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ Compilers and Options the `configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help' for details on some of the pertinent environment variables. - You can give `configure' initial values for variables by setting -them in the environment. You can do that on the command line like this: + You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters +by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here +is an example: ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix @@ -137,9 +138,10 @@ Specifying the System Type ========================== There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out -automatically, but needs to determine by the type of host the package -will run on. Usually `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints -a message saying it cannot guess the host type, give it the +automatically, but needs to determine by the type of machine the package +will run on. Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the +_same_ architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints +a message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the `--build=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form: @@ -151,20 +153,16 @@ where SYSTEM can have one of these forms: See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If `config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't -need to know the host type. +need to know the machine type. If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will produce code for. If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a -platform different from the build platform, you should specify the host -platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will eventually be -run) with `--host=TYPE'. In this case, you should also specify the -build platform with `--build=TYPE', because, in this case, it may not -be possible to guess the build platform (it sometimes involves -compiling and running simple test programs, and this can't be done if -the compiler is a cross compiler). +platform different from the build platform, you should specify the +"host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will +eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'. Sharing Defaults ================ diff --git a/README.CVS b/README.CVS new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ae17923bd --- /dev/null +++ b/README.CVS @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +If you are building from CVS, run the script + +./autogen.sh + +first, to make sure that you have all the necessary maintainer tools +are installed and to build the actual configuration files. Then run + +./configure --enable-maintainer-mode + +followed by the usual make. + +If autogen.sh complains about insufficient versions of the required +tools, or the tools are not installed, you may use environment +variables to override the default tool names: + + AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake + package. For example + AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX="-1.7" ./autogen.sh + uses "automake-1.7" and "aclocal-1.7. + AUTOMAKE_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the automake + page and may be combined with AUTOMAKE_SUFFIX. e.g.: + AUTOMAKE_PREFIX=/usr/foo/bin ./autogen.sh + uses "automake" and "aclocal" in the /usr/foo/bin + directory. + AUTOCONF_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the automake + package + AUTOCONF_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the automake + package + GETTEXT_SUFFIX is used as a suffix for all tools from the gettext + package + GETTEXT_PREFIX is used as a prefix for all tools from the gettext + package + +It is also possible to use the variable name AUTOMAKE, AUTOCONF, +ACLOCAL, AUTOHEADER, GETTEXT and MSGMERGE to directly specify the name +of the programs to run. It is however better to use the suffix and +prefix forms as described above because that does not require +knowledge about the actual tools used by autgen.sh. + + +Please don't use autopoint, libtoolize or autoreconf unless you are +the current maintainer and want to update the standard configuration +files. All those files should be in the CVS and only updated manually +if the maintainer decides that newer versions are required. The +maintainer should also make sure that the required version of automake +et al. are properly indicated at the top of configure.ac and take care +to copy the files and not merely use symlinks. + + + + |