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author | Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> | 2000-01-15 12:53:15 +0000 |
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committer | Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> | 2000-01-15 12:53:15 +0000 |
commit | b0749d03c076b5817bbff62d17bde940ac67905b (patch) | |
tree | 89012c83707080e772ae0c92e6c3c2f3c3b01492 /README | |
parent | b9af3d0e02b073b279a6957ef93abde3afd78d61 (diff) |
* README, HACKING: Moved "Hacking it yourself" section from README
to HACKING. Updated recommended libtool version to be 1.3.4.
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@@ -96,40 +96,6 @@ appears in your From: header, say foo@bar.com, send a mail note to guile-cvs-subscribe-foo=bar.com@sourceware.cygnus.com. -Hacking It Yourself ================================================== - -As distributed, Guile needs only an ANSI C compiler and a Unix system -to compile. However, Guile's makefiles, configuration scripts, and a -few other files are automatically generated, not written by hand. If -you want to make changes to the system (which we encourage!) you will -find it helpful to have the tools we use to develop Guile. They -are the following: - -Autoconf 2.13 --- a system for automatically generating `configure' - scripts from templates which list the non-portable features a - program would like to use. Available in - "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf" - -Automake 1.4 --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that - conform to the (rather Byzantine) GNU coding standards. The - nice thing is that it takes care of hairy targets like 'make - dist' and 'make distclean', and automatically generates - Makefile dependencies. Automake is available in - "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake" - - Before using automake, you may need to copy `threads.m4' and - `guile.m4' from the top directory of the Guile core disty to - `/usr/local/share/aclocal. - -libtool 1.3.3 --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed - on various systems to produce shared libraries. Available in - "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool" - -You are lost in a little maze of automatically generated files, all -different. -> - - Obtaining Guile ====================================================== The latest official Guile release is available via anonymous FTP from |