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diff --git a/README.cvs b/README.cvs deleted file mode 100644 index 65d5576..0000000 --- a/README.cvs +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -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 2.59 and GNU automake 1.9.6; 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. |