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 1.7
  13
  14 - Autoconf 2.57
  15
  16 - Gettext 0.12.1
  17
  18 - CVS Bison itself
  19
  20 Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful,
  21 later, a plain `cvs update -P & make' should be sufficient.
  22
  23 * First CVS checkout
  24
  25 Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
  26 Bison from CVS.  For the records, you will find all the relevant
  27 information on:
  28
  29         http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=56
  30
  31 The next step is asking the installation of all the missing files:
  32
  33         $ ./bootstrap
  34
  35 And there you are!  Just
  36
  37         $ ./configure && make && make check
  38
  39 At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
  40 and the CVS master copy:
  41
  42         $ cvs diff
  43
  44 should output no difference, except maybe the date in po/*.po files.
  45
  46 Enjoy!
  47
  48 * Troubleshooting
  49
  50 Unfortunately the current Gettext still does not include all the
  51 needed tools so that the bootstrapping always perform successfully.
  52
  53 If you experience problems, I suggest the following:
  54
  55 1. Do a regular CVS checkout
  56
  57 2. Fetch a recent tarball in:
  58    http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/
  59
  60 3. Extract it
  61
  62 4. Override the content of your checkout with the content of this
  63    tarball, i.e.:
  64    cp -r bison-1.49b/* bison-cvs
  65
  66 5. Proceed on ./configure && make etc.
  67
  68 -----
  69
  70 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  71
  72 This file is part of GNU Bison.
  73
  74 GNU Bison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  75 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  76 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  77 any later version.
  78
  79 GNU Bison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  80 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  81 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  82 GNU General Public License for more details.
  83
  84 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  85 along with Bison; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
  86 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  87 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.