more changes describing building flex from cvs

diff --git a/README.cvs b/README.cvs
index f3beb15835051f3a62b0fe9caf97cc0c50d28453..65d557617ad36db3eb690770f119c72f7fd2a7ea 100644 (file)
--- a/README.cvs
+++ b/README.cvs
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ not for you.
 
 When you get a distribution of flex, a large number of intermediate
 files needed to make building flex easy are included. You don't have
-that in a cvs snapshot.
+that in the cvs tree.
 
 You will need various external tools in order to build the distribution. Here is
-a (possibly incomplete) list of the required tools. Always get the latest
+a (hopefully complete and correct) list of the required tools. Always get the latest
 version of each tool; we list the versions used in development of
 flex, but the listed versions may not work for you.
 
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ bash or some other fairly robust sh-style shell
 GNU bison;  to generate parse.c from parse.y
 GNU m4 1.4; required by GNU autoconf (yes, it *must* be GNU m4)
 GNU autoconf 2.59 and GNU automake 1.9.6; for generating Makefiles etc.
-GNU gettext 0.11.5; for i18n
+GNU gettext 0.14.5; for i18n
 flex (latest beta release);  for bootstrap of scan.l
-help2man 1.27; to generate man page
+help2man 1.36; to generate the flex man page
 tar, gzip, etc.; for packaging of the source distribution
 GNU texinfo 4.8;  to build and test the flex manual
 perl; GNU automake and GNU autoconf now depend on perl to run