From fc50f773e92ea0cf2891dbfaf73918481cb6b885 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:46:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the special build considerations for building from a CVS checkout instead of a packaged source distribution. --- expat/README | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/expat/README b/expat/README index 01f76303..ba86a70a 100644 --- a/expat/README +++ b/expat/README @@ -22,8 +22,19 @@ the release above), are development releases and should be considered as beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are intended to be production grade software. -To build Expat, you first run the configuration shell script in the -top level distribution directory: +If you are building Expat from a check-out from the CVS repository, +you need to run a script that generates the configure script using the +GNU autoconf and libtool tools. To do this, you need to have +autoconf 2.52 or newer and libtool 1.4 or newer. Run the script like +this: + + ./buildconf.sh + +Once this has been done, follow the same instructions as for building +from a source distribution. + +To build Expat from a source distribution, you first run the +configuration shell script in the top level distribution directory: ./configure -- 2.40.0