Re: INSTALL and CVS

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

On 05/05/11 17:40, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> On Thursday, 05 May 2011, pl...@pi... wrote:
>> Any reason that is not in the install instructions in INSTALL?
>
> The CVS source tree contains a file INSTALL for use with the
> eventual distributed release package.   The instructions in
> INSTALL are correct for the release package.   But if you are
> building directly from the CVS source tree you need to first run
> the files through it through autoconf.
> There is a script  "./prepare" that does this for you.
>
> 	Ethan
>

Allin Cottrell wrote:

You need to read README.1ST ;-)


Hi,

Allin is of course correct. Thanks for pointing to that file:

    If your source is from the CVS repository rather from a release package,
    the order of commands is  ./prepare; ./configure; make



So the point is that INSTALL, despite it's length, does not tell you how 
to install in all cases. There are two files giving install notes with a 
paragraph headed "Installation from sources
", the two with differing information.

Is there any pressing reason for this simple phrase about how to install 
not being in the file called INSTALL?

Why is there information in README.1ST: 'Installation from sources' that 
is not in INSTALL: 'Installation from sources' ?

Surely the two should be syncronised or the para from README.1ST should 
be merged into INSTALL.

thanks for the replies.


regards, Peter.