From e10b1a7dee8ad3a8ead38a62081cb579b6f33e6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Estes Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:14:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update to explain where flex cvs lives --- README.cvs-snapshot | 26 +++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.cvs-snapshot b/README.cvs-snapshot index 45c9edb..f3beb15 100644 --- a/README.cvs-snapshot +++ b/README.cvs-snapshot @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ -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: +This file gives information regarding the cvs tree of flex. The cvs +tree of flex contains the files which are under version control by +the flex maintainers for the flex project. -ftp://ftp.uncg.edu/people/wlestes/ +You can learn about the details of retrieving a copy of the cvs flex +tree from flex's SourceForge project page at: + +http://sourceforge.net/projects/flex 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 +of the latest bleeding-edge features, then the cvs flex tree is not for you. When you get a distribution of flex, a large number of intermediate @@ -21,17 +23,17 @@ flex, but the listed versions may not work for you. compiler suite; e.g., gcc bash or some other fairly robust sh-style shell GNU bison; to generate parse.c from parse.y -GNU m4 1.4; required by BNU autoconf (yes, it *must* be GNU m4) -GNU autoconf 2.54 and GNU automake 1.7; for generating Makefiles etc. +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 flex (latest beta release); for bootstrap of scan.l help2man 1.27; to generate man page tar, gzip, etc.; for packaging of the source distribution -GNU texinfo 4.3d; to build and test the flex manual +GNU texinfo 4.8; to build and test the flex manual perl; GNU automake and GNU autoconf now depend on perl to run GNU indent 2.8; for indenting the flex source the way we want it done -ONce you have all the necessary tools installed, life becomes +Once you have all the necessary tools installed, life becomes simple. To prepare the flex tree for building, run the script: $ ./autogen.sh @@ -41,6 +43,4 @@ 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, almost. When configuring the flex tree, pass the ---enable-maintainer-mode option to configure. If you forget, you will -see errors about a missing file `version.texi'. +make install routine. -- 2.40.0