gnulib: update

[bison.git] / README-hacking

diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 28870cb268de91ad3704123dff12769b9fd135ad..25e4ef3400beaf754da93f802a82e1aaf03c07cf 100644 (file)
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -62,13 +62,22 @@ tools we depend upon, including:
 - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
 - Graphviz <http://www.graphviz.org>
 - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
+- Help2man <http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/>
 - Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
 - Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>
 - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
+- Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
 
 Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if it supports
 your architecture.
 
+If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution, the easiest way to install the
+above packages depends on your system.  The following shell command should
+work for Debian-based systems such as Ubuntu:
+
+  sudo apt-get install \
+    autoconf automake autopoint flex graphviz help2man texinfo valgrind
+
 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 grammars is out of date, and to bootstrap with an out-of-date version of the
@@ -94,15 +103,17 @@ to perform the first checkout of the submodules, run
 
        $ git submodule update --init
 
-Git submodule support is weak before versions 1.6 and later, you
-should probably upgrade Git if your version is older.
+Git submodule support is weak before versions 1.6 and later, upgrade Git if
+your version is older.
 
 The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are
 extracted from other source packages:
 
         $ ./bootstrap
 
-And there you are!  Just
+If it fails with missing symbols (e.g., "error: possibly undefined macro:
+AC_PROG_GNU_M4"), you are likely to have forgotten the submodule
+initialization part.  Otherwise, there you are!  Just
 
         $ ./configure
         $ make
@@ -440,7 +451,7 @@ Push these changes.
 
 -----
 
-Copyright (C) 2002-2005, 2007-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2002-2005, 2007-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU Bison.