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author | Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> | 2021-01-16 07:53:09 +0100 |
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committer | Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org> | 2021-01-16 07:53:09 +0100 |
commit | 89184195b4aead0174bdf84a2ce8112687db2e75 (patch) | |
tree | 40fb4c348753b776cc1b50ae38100571dc3cfc72 /README.git | |
parent | 268bdd7764e6ab4029fe7f8bc35626294d791c6d (diff) | |
download | freetype2-89184195b4aead0174bdf84a2ce8112687db2e75.tar.gz |
README, README.git: First updates due to freedesktop.org migration.
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diff --git a/README.git b/README.git index 265643df8..fcf203025 100644 --- a/README.git +++ b/README.git @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +README.git +---------- + The git archive doesn't contain pre-built configuration scripts for UNIXish platforms. To generate them say @@ -10,34 +13,32 @@ which in turn depends on the following packages: autoconf (2.62) The versions given in parentheses are known to work. Newer versions -should work too, of course. Note that autogen.sh also sets up proper -file permissions for the `configure' and auxiliary scripts. +should work too, of course. Note that `autogen.sh` also sets up +proper file permissions for the `configure` and auxiliary scripts. -The autogen.sh script now checks the version of above three packages -whether they match the numbers above. Otherwise it will complain and -suggest either upgrading or using an environment variable to point to -a more recent version of the required tool(s). +The `autogen.sh` script now checks the versions of the above three +packages whether they match the numbers above. Otherwise it will +complain and suggest either upgrading or using an environment variable +to point to a more recent version of the required tool(s). -Note that `aclocal' is provided by the `automake' package on Linux, -and that `libtoolize' is called `glibtoolize' on Darwin (OS X). +Note that `aclocal` is provided by the 'automake' package on Linux, +and that `libtoolize` is called `glibtoolize` on Darwin (OS X). -For static builds which don't use platform specific optimizations, no +For static builds that don't use platform-specific optimizations, no configure script is necessary at all; saying make setup ansi make -should work on all platforms which have GNU make (or makepp). - - -Similarly, a build with `cmake' can be done directly from the git -repository. +should work on all platforms that have GNU `make` (or `makepp`). +Similarly, a build with `cmake` or `meson` can be done directly from +the git repository. -For using the `FT_DEBUG_LOGGING' macro while debugging (see -`docs/DEBUG' for more information) use the following git commands to -checkout `dlg' library as a git submodule. +For using the `FT_DEBUG_LOGGING` macro while debugging (see file +`docs/DEBUG` for more information) the following git commands are +necessary to check out the 'dlg' library as a git submodule. git submodule init git submodule update |