-*- outline -*- These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources. These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball. * Requirements We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the repository. This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources. For example, you have to use the latest stable versions of the maintainer tools we depend upon, including: - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/> - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/> - Flex <http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/> - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/> - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/> - Perl <http://www.cpan.org/> - Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/> - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/> Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if Valgrind supports your architecture. Bison is written using Bison grammars, so there are bootstrapping issues. The bootstrap script attempts to discover when the C code generated from the grammars is out of date, and to bootstrap with an out-of-date version of the C code, but the process is not foolproof. Also, you may run into similar problems yourself if you modify Bison. Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful. Later, after synchronizing from the repository a plain `make' should be sufficient. * First checkout Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out this package from the repository. For the record, you will find all the relevant information on: http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=56 The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are extracted from other source packages: $ ./bootstrap And there you are! Just $ ./configure $ make $ make check At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy, and the master copy: $ cvs diff should output no difference. Enjoy! ----- Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.