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| author | Will Estes <westes575@gmail.com> | 2012-08-08 09:10:53 -0400 |
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| committer | Will Estes <westes575@gmail.com> | 2012-08-13 06:53:14 -0400 |
| commit | e8d3df5a9ea532042bd6acb0f3c4bbb20b506e7d (patch) | |
| tree | b1937e2604cbd89071eb7cd1caabc3ba5aeb7d87 /README | |
| parent | 7642bd98aebb62260df923f57b794138dab6f1e7 (diff) | |
append README.cvs contents to README
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@@ -77,3 +77,49 @@ TODO - outstanding bug reports, desired features, etc. tests/ - regression tests. See TESTS/README for details. po/ - internationalization support files. +This file gives information regarding the cvs tree of flex. The cvs +tree of flex contains the files which are under version control by +the flex maintainers for the flex project. + +You can learn about the details of retrieving a copy of the cvs flex +tree from flex's SourceForge project page at: + +http://sourceforge.net/projects/flex + +If you are not interested in flex development or you are not in need +of the latest bleeding-edge features, then the cvs flex tree is +not for you. + +When you get a distribution of flex, a large number of intermediate +files needed to make building flex easy are included. You don't have +that in the cvs tree. + +You will need various external tools in order to build the distribution. Here is +a (hopefully complete and correct) list of the required tools. Always get the +latest version of each tool; we list the versions used in development of +flex, but the listed versions may not work for you. + +compiler suite; e.g., gcc +bash or some other fairly robust sh-style shell +GNU bison; to generate parse.c from parse.y +GNU m4 1.4; required by GNU autoconf (yes, it *must* be GNU m4) +GNU autoconf 2.60 and GNU automake 1.10; for generating Makefiles etc. +GNU gettext 0.14.5; for i18n +flex (latest beta release); for bootstrap of scan.l +help2man 1.36; to generate the flex man page +tar, gzip, etc.; for packaging of the source distribution +GNU texinfo 4.8; to build and test the flex manual +perl; GNU automake and GNU autoconf now depend on perl to run +GNU indent 2.8; for indenting the flex source the way we want it done + +Once you have all the necessary tools installed, life becomes +simple. To prepare the flex tree for building, run the script: + +$ ./autogen.sh + +in the top level of the flex source tree. +This script calls the various tools needed to get flex ready for the +GNU-style configure script to be able to work. + +From this point on, building flex follows the usual configure, make, +make install routine. |