X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/3502e687e29f46c747be16a58d39fe79e7b1c7bc..186005466d585f5553e6acc7d963cd5b62c3ea9f:/docs/gtk/readme.txt

diff --git a/docs/gtk/readme.txt b/docs/gtk/readme.txt
index 25c561571b..34fcf18016 100644
--- a/docs/gtk/readme.txt
+++ b/docs/gtk/readme.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
 
-  Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.01 (beta 4),
+  Welcome to wxWindows/Gtk 2.1 snapshot 9,
+
+you have downloaded version 2.1 of the GTK+ 1.2 port of 
+the wxWindows GUI library. This is a developers release
+and is it not suited for production development. Beware
+that major changes can happen before a final release.
+
+Beginning with snapshot 9, wxWindows uses a completely
+new make file system on Unix which no longer uses the
+various GNU tools and I hope that I'll never again have
+to write any more makefiles.
 
-you have downloaded version 2.01 of the GTK+ 1.0 port of 
-the wxWindows GUI library.
- 
 More information is available from my homepage at:
 
   http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt
@@ -16,22 +23,15 @@ at Julian Smart's homepage at:
   
 Information on how to install can be found in the file 
 INSTALL.txt, but if you cannot wait, this should work on
-all systems
+many systems (when using GTK 1.0 or when not using Linux
+read the INSTALL.txt):
 
 ./configure
 make
+su <type root password>
 make install
-
-Type the following to make the samples
-
-make samples
-
-To start the samples, change into the directory that
-corresponds to the sample and your system, e.g on a
-linux-gnu machine the minimal sample would get started
-from the wxWindows base dir with
-
-./samples/minimal/linux-gnu/minimal
+ldconfig
+exit
 
 When you run into problems, please read the INSTALL.txt and
 follow those instructions. If you still don't have any success,
@@ -42,17 +42,17 @@ DISTRIBUTION YOU USE AND WHAT ERROR WAS REPORTED. I know
 this has no effect, but I tried...
 
 The library produced by the install process will be called 
-libwx_gtk2.a (static) and libwx_gtk2.so.0.1 (shared) so that 
+libwx_gtk.a (static) and libwx_gtk-2.1.so.0.0.0 (shared) so that 
 once a binary incompatible version of wxWindows/Gtk comes out 
-we'll augment library version number to avoid linking problems.
+we'll augment the library version number to avoid linking problems.
 
 Please send problems concerning installation, feature requests, 
-bug reports or comments to the wxWindows users Information on 
-how to subscribe is available from my homepage.
+bug reports or comments to the wxWindows users list. Information 
+on how to subscribe is available from my homepage.
 
 wxWindows/Gtk doesn't come with any guarantee whatsoever. It might 
 crash your harddisk or destroy your monitor. It doesn't claim to be
-suitable for any special purpose.
+suitable for any special or general purpose.
 
   Regards,