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authorvlefevre <vlefevre@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4>2004-10-13 08:35:11 +0000
committervlefevre <vlefevre@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4>2004-10-13 08:35:11 +0000
commit47a633316dc1cf5a308a798079ee82981b863fa8 (patch)
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parent4d88886e0f5ca19a75275fb0fbf8c3371f768f27 (diff)
downloadmpfr-47a633316dc1cf5a308a798079ee82981b863fa8.tar.gz
Added a comment about autoreconf and a bug in Debian (now fixed).
git-svn-id: svn://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/mpfr/trunk@3028 280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4
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@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ To compile source code obtained from CVS, you need some GNU development
utilities: aclocal, autoheader, automake, autoconf 2.50 (at least). As
some files like "configure" are not part of the CVS repository, you
first need to run "autoreconf"; if you have both autoconf 2.13 and 2.50
-installed, you may need to run "autoreconf" a second time. Then you can
-run "configure" in the usual way (see the INSTALL file).
+installed and use a wrapper, you may need to run "autoreconf" a second
+time (as with old Debian packages, due to a bug in the wrapper). Then
+you can run "configure" in the usual way (see the INSTALL file).
If for some reason, this doesn't work, there's still the old way: run
the "prepare" script to generate these files; as the "prepare" script