diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 01c8978a..ab7bb049 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-06-22 Hrvoje Niksic + + * README.svn: Renamed to README.checkout. Edited to mention the + autogen.sh script. + 2005-06-22 Hrvoje Niksic * autogen.sh: New file. diff --git a/README.checkout b/README.checkout new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d4746d81 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.checkout @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Important note: + +To reduce bandwidth and needless updates, the Subversion tree does not +contain automatically-generated files, even when those files are +normally present in the distribution tarballs. + +Therefore, if you're building from the sources obtained via +Subversion, you'll need to have at least GNU Autoconf (2.57 or newer) +installed on your system. To generate the Info documentation, you +will need the GNU Texinfo package. Finally, if your system does not +have gettext and you want the support for internationalized messages, +you will also need GNU gettext. The three packages are available from +/> and its mirrors (please choose +one close to you), listed at . + +In case you aren't used to running autoconf manually to generate the +necessary configure script, a script called autogen.sh has been +provided, and may be invoked using `./autogen.sh'. Once the script +has completed, the configure script will reside in the current +directory and you can proceed to build Wget in the usual fashion. + +To summarize, once you've checked out wget from the Subversion +repository, the commands you'll execute will be as follows (barring +any extra options to `configure' or to `make'): + + cd wget + ./autogen.sh + ./configure + make diff --git a/README.svn b/README.svn deleted file mode 100644 index 7abdb621..00000000 --- a/README.svn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -Important note: - -To reduce bandwidth and needless updates, the Subversion tree does not -contain automatically-generated files, even when those files are -normally present in the distribution tarballs. - -Therefore, if you're building from the sources obtained via -Subversion, you'll need to have GNU autoconf, gettext, and texinfo -installed on your machine (these do the afore-mentioned automatic -generation). The three packages are available from -/> and its mirrors (please choose -one close to you), listed at . - -In case you aren't used to running autoconf manually to generate the -necessary configure script, a file called Makefile.cvs has been -provided, and may be called using `make -f Makefile.cvs'. Once the -Makefile has called autoconf to generate the configure script, you can -build in the usual fashion. - -To summarize, once you've checked out wget from the Subversion -repository (instructions for which can be found on the Development -page of the Wget website), the commands you'll execute will be as -follows (barring any extra options to `configure' or to the second -`make'): - - cd wget - make -f Makefile.svn - ./configure - make