+-*- 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 2.53 or better
- (actually, CVS Autoconf provides a better autoreconf...
- http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/autoconf-2.53a.tar.gz)
-- Gettext 0.10.1
+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.
The next step is asking the installation of all the missing files:
- $ autoreconf -f -v -i
-
-Unfortunately, this will change a few files that should not have been
-replaced, so remove them, and ask for the original copies:
-
- $ rm Makefile.am configure.in m4/Makefile.am
- $ cvs update
-
-(Hopefully, these steps will no longer be needed in the future.)
-Because of these changes, running autoreconf a second, and last time,
-is needed. Pay attention that the options are different this time:
-
- $ autoreconf -v -f
+ $ ./bootstrap
And there you are! Just
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.
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+Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.