README-cvs

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