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authorWerner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>2013-12-22 09:38:14 +0100
committerWerner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>2013-12-22 09:38:14 +0100
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Update top-level documentation regarding git repository and bug tracker.
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@@ -1,21 +1,19 @@
Copyright 2013
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Last Update: 16 Apr 2013
+ Last Update: 22 Dec 2013
- Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
- are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
- notice and this notice are preserved.
+ Copying and distribution of this file, with or without
+ modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided
+ the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
This file contains information that supplements the generic
-installation instructions in file `INSTALL.autotools'. It is meant
-for people building directly from the development repository, rather than
+installation instructions in file `INSTALL.gen'. It is meant for
+people building directly from the development repository, rather than
a release or snapshot tarball .
-
If you want to start compiling the `groff' system with an existing
-script `configure' you won't need the information ion this file.
-
+script `configure' you won't need the information in this file.
But if you want to use the `GNU autotools' (`aclocal', `autoreconf')
for creating the following and some more files:
@@ -24,34 +22,30 @@ for creating the following and some more files:
configure
Makefile
-
To change the file `aclocal.m4', run the shell command
$ aclocal -I m4
-
-To recreate the files `configure' and `Makefile', use the shell command
+To recreate the files `configure' and `Makefile', use the shell
+command
$ autoreconf -I m4
-
The option `-I m4' is necessary. It refers to the subdirectory `m4'
-that has files with m4 macro definitions that are needed by the
-`autotools'.
+that has files with m4 macro definitions needed by the `autotools'.
+If you use an old `autoreconf' version < 2.69, there might be an error
+warning like:
-If you use an old `autoreconf' version < 2.69, there might be an
-error warning like:
-
- /usr/share/aclocal/gtkglextmm-1.2.m4:225: warning: underquoted \
-definition of AC_GTKGLEXTMM_SUPPORTS_MULTIHEAD
- /usr/share/aclocal/gtkglextmm-1.2.m4:225: run info \
-'(automake)Extending aclocal'
- /usr/share/aclocal/gtkglextmm-1.2.m4:225: or see \
-http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
-
-Just ignore this. It doesn't occur in the actual versions of `autoreconf'.
+ /usr/share/aclocal/gtkglextmm-1.2.m4:225:
+ warning: underquoted definition of AC_GTKGLEXTMM_SUPPORTS_MULTIHEAD
+ /usr/share/aclocal/gtkglextmm-1.2.m4:225:
+ run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
+ /usr/share/aclocal/gtkglextmm-1.2.m4:225:
+ or see http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
+Just ignore this. It doesn't occur in the actual versions of
+`autoreconf'.
You may even use the shell command
@@ -60,11 +54,10 @@ You may even use the shell command
instead of `autoreconf', but that will ignore some features. So
`autoreconf' is better.
-
-`automake' is not used. `autoreconf' does part of this. If you know
-about creating `Makefile.am' files we are glad to have you for the
-inclusion of `automake'. Take contact with the `groff Mailinglist'.
-
+`automake' is not used currently, however, we plan to convert the
+build system accordingly. If you know about creating `Makefile.am'
+files we are glad to have you for the inclusion of `automake'. Take
+contact with the `groff Mailinglist'.
After the use of the `GNU autotools', the usual compilation should
work. If the run of `configure' produces error reports you have