From 9a025a834ad1d5151eef02973c3fa185b44773fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Estes Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:27:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] include README.cvs-snapshot in the distribution; in README-cvs-snapshot, mention the need for enable-maintainer-mode --- Makefile.am | 1 + README.cvs-snapshot | 18 +++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 12a2f6a..20bb622 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \ NEWS \ ONEWS \ README \ + README.cvs-snapshot RoadMap \ THANKS \ TODO \ diff --git a/README.cvs-snapshot b/README.cvs-snapshot index e7bc708..6b3a0e1 100644 --- a/README.cvs-snapshot +++ b/README.cvs-snapshot @@ -1,10 +1,17 @@ -If you see this file, it's because you have a cvs snapshot of flex. If -you are not interested in flex development or you are not in need of -the latest bleeding-edge features, then this snapshot is not for you. +This file gives information regarding cvs snapshots of flex. cvs +snapshots of flex contain the files which are under version control by +the flex maintainers for the flex project. These snapshots can be +found at: + +ftp://ftp.uncg.edu/people/wlestes/ + +If you are not interested in flex development or you are not in need +of the latest bleeding-edge features, then cvs snapshots of flex are +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 this snapshot. +that in a cvs snapshot. 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 @@ -33,4 +40,5 @@ This script calls the various tools needed to get flex ready for the GNU-style configure script to be able to work. From this point on, building flex follows the usual configure, make, -make install routine. +make install routine, almost. When configuring the flex tree, pass the +--enable-maintainer-mode option to configure. -- 2.40.0