README-cvs

   1 -*- outline -*-
   2
   3 These notes intend to help people working on the CVS versions of
   4 Bison.
   5
   6 * Requirements
   7
   8 Only the sources are installed in the CVS repository (to ease the
   9 maintenance, merges etc.), therefore you will have to the maintainer
  10 tools we depend upon:
  11
  12 - Automake 1.6 or 1.6.1
  13
  14 - Autoconf 2.53a or better
  15   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53a.tar.gz   (992 kB)
  16   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53a.tar.bz2  (756 kB)
  17
  18 - Gettext 0.11.3 pre 2 or better
  19   http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/gettext-0.11.3-pre2.tar.gz
  20
  21 Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful,
  22 later, a plain `cvs update -P & make' should be sufficient.
  23
  24 * First CVS checkout
  25
  26 Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
  27 Bison from CVS.  For the records, you will find all the relevant
  28 information on:
  29
  30         http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=56
  31
  32 The next step is asking the installation of all the missing files:
  33
  34         $ ./bootstrap
  35
  36 And there you are!  Just
  37
  38         $ ./configure && make && make check
  39
  40 At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
  41 and the CVS master copy:
  42
  43         $ cvs diff
  44
  45 should output no difference, except maybe the date in po/*.po files.
  46
  47 Enjoy!
  48
  49 * Troubleshooting
  50
  51 Unfortunately the current Gettext still does not include all the
  52 needed tools so that the bootstrapping always perform successfully.
  53
  54 If you experiment problems, I suggest the following:
  55
  56 1. Do a regular CVS checkout
  57
  58 2. Fetch a recent tarball.
  59    http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/bison-1.49b.tar.gz
  60
  61 3. Extract it
  62
  63 4. Override the content of your checkout with the content of this
  64    tarball, i.e.:
  65    cp -r bison-1.49b/* bison-cvs
  66
  67 5. Proceed on ./configure && make etc.
  68
  69 -----
  70
  71 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  72
  73 This file is part of GNU Bison.
  74
  75 GNU Bison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  76 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  77 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  78 any later version.
  79
  80 GNU Bison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  81 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  82 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  83 GNU General Public License for more details.
  84
  85 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  86 along with Bison; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
  87 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  88 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.