maintenance, merges etc.), therefore you will have to get the latest
stable versions of the maintainer tools we depend upon, including:
-- Automake
-- Autoconf
-- Flex
-- Gettext
-- CVS Bison itself
+- 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/>
+- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
+- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
+
+As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we
+suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available).
+
+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+generated from the grammars is out of date, and to bootstrap with an
+out-of-date version of the C code, but the process is not foolproof.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, a plain `cvs update -P & make' should be sufficient.
+later, a plain `cvs update -P && make' should be sufficient.
* First CVS checkout
$ cvs diff
-should output no difference, except maybe the date in po/*.po files.
+should output no difference.
Enjoy!
-* Troubleshooting
-
-Unfortunately the current Gettext still does not include all the
-needed tools so that the bootstrapping always perform successfully.
-
-If you experience problems, I suggest the following:
-
-1. Do a regular CVS checkout
-
-2. Fetch a recent tarball in:
- ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/bison/
-
-3. Extract it
-
-4. Override the content of your checkout with the content of this
- tarball, i.e.:
- cp -r bison-1.875c/* bison-cvs
-
-5. Proceed on ./configure && make etc.
-
-----
-Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU Bison.