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authorBertrand Garrigues <bertrand.garrigues@laposte.net>2014-09-23 00:23:32 +0200
committerBertrand Garrigues <bertrand.garrigues@laposte.net>2015-01-27 23:13:15 +0100
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Added a short explanation in INSTALL.REPO on autotools versions, for
systems that supports multiple autotools versions. Regexp in contrib/groffer/groffer.am: Basic regular expressions don't have a "+" bound. Both issues pointed out by Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>.
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1. Initial build
----------------
+You will need autoconf version and 2.65 or higher and automake version
+1.12.2 or higher. These minimal versions are set in the bootstrap.conf
+file.
+
+On operating systems supporting concurrent installation of multiple
+versions of the autotools, set the following environment variables:
+
+ export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.12
+ export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.65
+
First invoke the bootstrap script:
$ ./bootstrap