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 get the latest
  10 stable versions of the maintainer tools we depend upon, including:
  11
  12 - Automake
  13 - Autoconf
  14 - Flex
  15 - Gettext
  16 - CVS Bison itself
  17
  18 Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful,
  19 later, a plain `cvs update -P & make' should be sufficient.
  20
  21 * First CVS checkout
  22
  23 Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
  24 Bison from CVS.  For the records, you will find all the relevant
  25 information on:
  26
  27         http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=56
  28
  29 The next step is asking the installation of all the missing files:
  30
  31         $ ./bootstrap
  32
  33 And there you are!  Just
  34
  35         $ ./configure && make && make check
  36
  37 At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
  38 and the CVS master copy:
  39
  40         $ cvs diff
  41
  42 should output no difference, except maybe the date in po/*.po files.
  43
  44 Enjoy!
  45
  46 * Troubleshooting
  47
  48 Unfortunately the current Gettext still does not include all the
  49 needed tools so that the bootstrapping always perform successfully.
  50
  51 If you experience problems, I suggest the following:
  52
  53 1. Do a regular CVS checkout
  54
  55 2. Fetch a recent tarball in:
  56    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/bison/
  57
  58 3. Extract it
  59
  60 4. Override the content of your checkout with the content of this
  61    tarball, i.e.:
  62    cp -r bison-1.875c/* bison-cvs
  63
  64 5. Proceed on ./configure && make etc.
  65
  66 -----
  67
  68 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  69
  70 This file is part of GNU Bison.
  71
  72 GNU Bison is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  73 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  74 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
  75 any later version.
  76
  77 GNU Bison is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  78 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  79 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  80 GNU General Public License for more details.
  81
  82 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  83 along with Bison; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
  84 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
  85 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.