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| author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2006-09-21 13:07:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> | 2007-09-21 15:09:09 -0600 |
| commit | a66ecf2caed215b416b31cf9ed395ed8d9a2d2a1 (patch) | |
| tree | e4b1122b2dfe09a883df427b91b244e07a0e04c4 /README | |
| parent | 5c84e9057d10e1d7222faf891e8341d0cf919b76 (diff) | |
| download | m4-a66ecf2caed215b416b31cf9ed395ed8d9a2d2a1.tar.gz | |
* bootstrap: Add --force option, based on idea from coreutils.
* README: Document that ./bootstrap and autoreconf are for
developers, and not lightly done in tarballs.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ This release is considered stable. If GNU `m4' is meant to serve GNU `autoconf', beware that `m4' should be fully installed *prior to* configuring `autoconf' itself. +Likewise, if you intend on hacking GNU `m4' from CVS, the bootstrap +process requires that you first install a released copy of GNU `m4'. + +If you are just trying to build `m4' from a released tarball, you +should not normally need to run `./bootstrap' or `autoreconf'; just go +ahead and start with `./configure'. If you are trying to build `m4' +from CVS, more information can be found in the CVS-only file HACKING. In the subdirectory `examples' you will find various m4 files, ranging from trivial test files to rather advanced macros. If you intend to @@ -24,7 +31,7 @@ See file `THANKS' for a list of contributors. By using `./configure --enable-changeword', you get an experimental feature which allows for changing the syntax of what is a "word" in `m4'. This feature will not be present in m4 2.0, but will be -replaced by other new features which provide the same capability, so +replaced by other new features which provide similar capability, so do not count on it. Send bug reports to `bug-m4@gnu.org'. A bug report is an adequate |