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 2.53 or better
   8   (actually, CVS Autoconf provides a better autoreconf...
   9    http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/autoconf-2.53a.tar.gz)
  10 - Gettext 0.10.1
  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         $ autoreconf -f -v -i
  26
  27 Unfortunately, this will change a few files that should not have been
  28 replaced, so remove them, and ask for the original copies:
  29
  30         $ rm Makefile.am configure.in m4/Makefile.am
  31         $ cvs update
  32
  33 (Hopefully, these steps will no longer be needed in the future.)
  34 Because of these changes, running autoreconf a second, and last time,
  35 is needed.  Pay attention that the options are different this time:
  36
  37         $ autoreconf -v -f
  38
  39 And there you are!  Just
  40
  41         $ ./configure && make && make check
  42
  43 At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
  44 and the CVS master copy:
  45
  46         $ cvs diff
  47
  48 should output no difference, except maybe the date in po/*.po files.
  49
  50 Enjoy!
  51
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