X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/blobdiff_plain/a5c75d7fc652cc8cc36ff6c5f920a747bf79d4b9..f5228370c596f17e9b176d0959423c7a136b5b67:/README-cvs diff --git a/README-cvs b/README-cvs index 2b60913a..c25499be 100644 --- a/README-cvs +++ b/README-cvs @@ -6,14 +6,28 @@ Bison. * Requirements 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: +maintenance, merges etc.), therefore you will have to get the latest +stable versions of the maintainer tools we depend upon, including: -- Automake 1.7 +- Automake +- Autoconf +- Flex +- Gettext +- Gzip +- Tar +- Wget -- Autoconf 2.54 +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). -- Gettext 0.11.5 +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 The bootstrap script attempts to discover when the C code +generated from the grammars is out of date, and to bootstrap with an +out-of-date version of the C code, but the process is not foolproof.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. @@ -39,33 +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 experience problems, I suggest the following: - -1. Do a regular CVS checkout - -2. Fetch a recent tarball in: - http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/ - -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 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Bison. @@ -81,5 +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.