X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/976e627098ad399e19c42fb62257b83139fe2ec0..a06331788509386cd43b8cc1d2891126b372c5de:/README-cvs?ds=inline diff --git a/README-cvs b/README-cvs index dd0b18d7..6f3bcb4c 100644 --- a/README-cvs +++ b/README-cvs @@ -1,16 +1,36 @@ +-*- 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 + +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 +- Gzip +- Tar +- 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). -- 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 +Valgrind 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 The bootstrap script attempts to discover when the C code +generated from the grammars is out of date, and to bootstrap with an +out-of-date version of the C code, but the process is not foolproof.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 @@ -33,28 +53,13 @@ and the CVS master copy: $ 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 experiment problems, I suggest the following: - -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 - tarball, i.e.: - cp -r bison-1.49b/* bison-cvs -5. proceed on ./configure && make etc. - ----- -Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Bison. @@ -70,5 +75,5 @@ GNU General Public License for more details. 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.