[Expat-checkins] expat README,1.19,1.20

Fred L. Drake fdrake@users.sourceforge.net
Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:47:01 -0700


Update of /cvsroot/expat/expat
In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv12485

Modified Files:
	README 
Log Message:
Document the special build considerations for building from a CVS
checkout instead of a packaged source distribution.


Index: README
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RCS file: /cvsroot/expat/expat/README,v
retrieving revision 1.19
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -d -r1.19 -r1.20
--- README	12 Jul 2002 05:21:23 -0000	1.19
+++ README	29 Aug 2002 16:46:59 -0000	1.20
@@ -22,8 +22,19 @@
 as beta software.  Releases with even minor version numbers are
 intended to be production grade software.
 
-To build Expat, you first run the configuration shell script in the
-top level distribution directory:
+If you are building Expat from a check-out from the CVS repository,
+you need to run a script that generates the configure script using the
+GNU autoconf and libtool tools.  To do this, you need to have
+autoconf 2.52 or newer and libtool 1.4 or newer.  Run the script like
+this:
+
+        ./buildconf.sh
+
+Once this has been done, follow the same instructions as for building
+from a source distribution.
+
+To build Expat from a source distribution, you first run the
+configuration shell script in the top level distribution directory:
 
         ./configure