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2009-09-20 Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
* INSTALL: Various minor adjustments to bring it up to date.
2009-09-09 Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
* configure.ac: Add bz2 and lzma dists.

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INSTALL
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@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ compile Wget from source code on a Unix-like system, read on.
The preferred form of building Wget is to get a release archive and
unpack it (which you have presumably done, since you are reading
this). If you have obtained the source code via the Subversion
this). If you have obtained the source code via the Mercurial
repository, please follow the instructions in `README.checkout' before
continuing.
continuing, as the sources from the Mercurial repository do not include
some files that are present in official distributions; these additional
files must be generated first.
1. Dependencies
---------------
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- OpenSSL -- for "https" URLs.
- GNU gettext -- for translated messages.
- GNU libidn -- for IDN/IRI support.
- GNU libiconv -- for IDN/IRI support (not needed on GNU).
To be usable for building Wget, the listed libraries must be installed
with their "development" header files. On GNU/Linux systems this
@ -98,6 +102,9 @@ software Wget can link with, such as the SSL libraries. Recognized
--disable-largefile omit support for large files
--disable-ipv6 disable IPv6 support
--disable-rpath do not hardcode runtime library paths
--disable-iri disable IDN/IRIs support
For the full list, see the output of `./configure --help'.
You can inspect decisions made by configure by editing the generated
Makefiles and the `src/config.h' include file. The defaults should
@ -117,10 +124,12 @@ invoke configure like this:
This assumes that `cc' is in your path -- if it is not, simply use
CC=/path/to/cc instead. Note that environment variables that affect
configure can be set with the usual shell syntax `VAR=value
./configure' (assuming sh syntax), but can also be specified as
arguments to configure, as shown above. The latter method, while
being specific to configure, works unmodified in all shells.
configure can be set with the usual shell syntax `VAR=value ./configure'
(assuming sh syntax), but can also be specified as arguments to
configure, as shown above. The latter method, while being specific to
configure, works unmodified in all shells, and in addition allows
configure to detect when that setting has been changed across
invocations.
Environment variables that affect `configure' include: CFLAGS for C
compiler flags, CPPFLAGS for C preprocessor flags, LDFLAGS for linker

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README
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Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by