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@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. Basic Installation ================== -These are generic installation instructions. +Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should +configure, build, and install this package. The following +more-detailed instructions are generic; see the `README' file for +instructions specific to this package. The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses @@ -23,9 +26,9 @@ debugging `configure'). It can also use an optional file (typically called `config.cache' and enabled with `--cache-file=config.cache' or simply `-C') that saves -the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring. (Caching is +the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring. Caching is disabled by default to prevent problems with accidental use of stale -cache files.) +cache files. If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail @@ -35,20 +38,17 @@ some point `config.cache' contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it. The file `configure.ac' (or `configure.in') is used to create -`configure' by a program called `autoconf'. You only need -`configure.ac' if you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using -a newer version of `autoconf'. +`configure' by a program called `autoconf'. You need `configure.ac' if +you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version +of `autoconf'. The simplest way to compile this package is: 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type - `./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're - using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type - `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute - `configure' itself. + `./configure' to configure the package for your system. - Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some - messages telling which features it is checking for. + Running `configure' might take a while. While running, it prints + some messages telling which features it is checking for. 2. Type `make' to compile the package. @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ details on some of the pertinent environment variables. by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here is an example: - ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix + ./configure CC=c99 CFLAGS=-g LIBS=-lposix *Note Defining Variables::, for more details. @@ -87,17 +87,15 @@ Compiling For Multiple Architectures You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their -own directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that -supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the +own directory. To do this, you can use GNU `make'. `cd' to the directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'. - If you have to use a `make' that does not support the `VPATH' -variable, you have to compile the package for one architecture at a -time in the source code directory. After you have installed the -package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring -for another architecture. + With a non-GNU `make', it is safer to compile the package for one +architecture at a time in the source code directory. After you have +installed the package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before +reconfiguring for another architecture. Installation Names ================== |