From e781e2df7cbe7794165e267a627417c906e4adbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 07:15:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Describe CVS access better, using the README-alpha from GNU tar. --- README-alpha | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+) diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha index c1e4413..9112a94 100644 --- a/README-alpha +++ b/README-alpha @@ -1,2 +1,69 @@ This is a test version of diffutils. + +This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use yet. Please send comments and problem reports to . + +If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following +packages (or later) to build GNU diffutils. We don't make any extra effort +to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure +that you have the latest stable version. + +- Automake +- Autoconf +- Gettext +- Gzip +- M4 +- Wget + +As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we +suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available). + +Valgrind is also highly recommended, if +Valgrind supports your architecture. + +Before building the package, run "bootstrap". It obtains various +additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project +site and prepares the source directory for building. + +When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and +files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah. Then, it +will fetch the po files from the page at Translation Project, and, +finally, it will start the autoconfiguration process. Simply running +it without arguments should do in most cases. Several options allow +to control the behavior of bootstrap: + + --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where gnulib + sources reside. Use this if you already + have gnulib sources on your machine, and + do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading + them again. + + --cvs-user=USERNAME Set the CVS username to be used when accessing + the gnulib repository. + + --skip-po Do not download po files. + +Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap +will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to +some other value. + + + +Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +This file is part of GNU diffutils. + +GNU diffutils is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) +any later version. + +GNU diffutils is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +along with diffutils; see the file COPYING. If not, write to +the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, +Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.