INSTALL and CVS

[<pl...@pi...>]

Hi,

I just got CVS instructions from sourceforge and grabbed the source 
code. I referred to INSTALL for instructions and it tells me to use a 
non existent configure.

Installation from sources
=========================

For the impatient
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    Configuration options are in the Makefile and in src/term.h, which
selects the set of terminal drivers to be compiled in.

    The recommended way to configure both of these is the GNU-style
"./configure" script described below, and also in INSTALL.gnu.




Some checking , re-reading and head scratching later I spot a file 
called prepare. That does the trick.

I seem to recall hitting this last time I used CVS and was told CVS was 
a special case or some such. Well if it is , why is it not documented?

For the cost of adding one line to the install instructions it seems odd 
that I have to waste time working out why the install instructions don't 
work and find out what I need to do myself.

Surely a sentence like "if you downloaded from CVS repository you will 
need the additional step of running ./prepare before configure/make" 
would mean it was properly documented.

Any reason that is not in the install instructions in INSTALL?

regards. Peter.