Two files is confusing.
Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
* README-hacking: Merge into...
* HACKING (Working from the repository): here.
+2009-03-26 Akim Demaille <demaille@gostai.com>
+
+ doc: merge HACKING and README-hacking.
+ Two files is confusing.
+ Reported by Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
+
+ * README-hacking: Merge into...
+ * HACKING (Working from the repository): here.
+
2009-03-26 Akim Demaille <demaille@gostai.com>
doc: update README-hacking.
Everything related to the development of Bison is on Savannah:
- http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/bison/
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/bison/
* Administrivia
meant for the maintainers only.
+* Working from the repository
+
+These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
+These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
+
+** Requirements
+
+We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the repository.
+This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more
+requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources.
+For example, you have to use the latest stable versions of the maintainer
+tools we depend upon, including:
+
+- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
+- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
+- Flex <http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/>
+- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
+- Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
+- Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>
+- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
+
+Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> 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+generated from the grammars is out of date, and to bootstrap with an
+out-of-date version of the C code, but the process is not foolproof.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, after synchronizing from the repository a plain `make' should
+be sufficient.
+
+** First checkout
+
+Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
+this package from the repository. For the record, you will find all the
+relevant information on:
+
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=bison
+
+Bison uses Git submodules: subscriptions to other Git repositories.
+In particular it uses gnulib, the GNU portability library. To ask Git
+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.
+
+The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are
+extracted from other source packages:
+
+ $ ./bootstrap
+
+And there you are! Just
+
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ $ make check
+
+At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
+and the master copy:
+
+ $ git diff
+
+should output no difference.
+
+Enjoy!
+
+** Updating
+
+The use of submodules make things somewhat different because git does
+not support recursive operations: submodules must be taken care of
+explicitly by the user.
+
+*** Updating Bison
+
+If you pull a newer version of a branch, say via `git pull', you might
+import requests for updated submodules. A simple `git diff' will
+reveal if the current version of the submodule (i.e., the actual
+contents of the gnulib directory) and the current request from the
+subscriber (i.e., the reference of the version of gnulib that the
+Bison reporitory requests) differ. To upgrade the submodules (i.e.,
+to check out the version that is actually requested by the subscriber,
+run `git submodule update'.
+
+ $ git pull
+ $ git submodule update
+
+*** Updating a submodule
+To update a submodule, say gnulib, do as follows:
+
+Get the most recent version of the master branch from git.
+
+ $ cd gnulib
+ $ git fetch
+ $ git checkout -b master --track origin/master
+
+Make sure Bison can live with that version of gnulib.
+
+ $ cd ..
+ $ ./bootstrap
+ $ make distcheck
+
+Register your changes.
+
+ $ git checkin ...
+
+
* Test suite
** make check
-----
-Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU Bison.
+++ /dev/null
--*- outline -*-
-
-These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
-These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
-
-* Requirements
-
-We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the repository.
-This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more
-requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources.
-For example, you have to use the latest stable versions of the maintainer
-tools we depend upon, including:
-
-- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
-- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
-- Flex <http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/>
-- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
-- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
-- Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
-- Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>
-- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
-
-Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> 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, after synchronizing from the repository a plain `make' should
-be sufficient.
-
-* First checkout
-
-Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
-this package from the repository. For the record, you will find all the
-relevant information on:
-
- http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=bison
-
-Bison uses Git submodules: subscriptions to other Git repositories.
-In particular it uses gnulib, the GNU portability library. To ask Git
-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.
-
-The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are
-extracted from other source packages:
-
- $ ./bootstrap
-
-And there you are! Just
-
- $ ./configure
- $ make
- $ make check
-
-At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
-and the master copy:
-
- $ git diff
-
-should output no difference.
-
-Enjoy!
-
-* Updating
-
-The use of submodules make things somewhat different because git does
-not support recursive operations: submodules must be taken care of
-explicitly by the user.
-
-** Updating Bison
-
-If you pull a newer version of a branch, say via `git pull', you might
-import requests for updated submodules. A simple `git diff' will
-reveal if the current version of the submodule (i.e., the actual
-contents of the gnulib directory) and the current request from the
-subscriber (i.e., the reference of the version of gnulib that the
-Bison reporitory requests) differ. To upgrade the submodules (i.e.,
-to check out the version that is actually requested by the subscriber,
-run `git submodule update'.
-
- $ git pull
- $ git submodule update
-
-** Updating a submodule
-To update a submodule, say gnulib, do as follows:
-
-Get the most recent version of the master branch from git.
-
- $ cd gnulib
- $ git fetch
- $ git checkout -b master --track origin/master
-
-Make sure Bison can live with that version of gnulib.
-
- $ cd ..
- $ ./bootstrap
- $ make distcheck
-
-Register your changes.
-
- $ git checkin ...
-
------
-
-Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.
-
-This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
-
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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