+-*- outline -*-
+
These notes intend to help people working on the CVS versions of
-Bison. Only the sources are installed in the CVS repository (to ease
-the maintenance, merges etc.), therefore you will have to the
-maintainer tools we depend upon:
+Bison.
+
+* Requirements
-- Automake 1.6 or 1.6.1
-- Autoconf 2.53a or better
- ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53a.tar.gz (992 kB)
- ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53a.tar.bz2 (756 kB)
-- Gettext 0.11.3
+Only the sources are installed in the CVS repository (to ease the
+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
Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful,
later, a plain `cvs update -P & make' should be sufficient.
Unfortunately the current Gettext still does not include all the
needed tools so that the bootstrapping always perform successfully.
-If you experiment problems, I suggest the following:
+If you experience problems, I suggest the following:
+
+1. Do a regular CVS checkout
-1. do a regular CVS checkout
-2. fetch http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/bison-1.49b.tar.gz
-3. extract it
-4. override the content of your checkout with the content of this
+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-1.49b/* bison-cvs
-5. proceed on ./configure && make etc.
+ cp -r bison-1.875c/* bison-cvs
+
+5. Proceed on ./configure && make etc.
-----
-Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU Bison.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Bison; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
-the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.