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==================================== xxdiff: Build Notes and Instructions ==================================== xxdiff is a graphical file and directories comparison and merge tool. Official home page: http://xxdiff.sourceforge.net Original author: Martin Blais <blais@furius.ca> Full documentation is available from the Help menu or web site. Various integration tools are available under the tools subdirectory (CVS, ClearCase, etc.) Building from source ==================== Requirements ------------ - GNU make. You will need GNU make. Don't waste your time with other makes, many are known not to work (Sun's, as well as OSF1). - A C++ compiler with a decent STL - flex >=2.5.31 - bison - Qt >=4.5 Compiling --------- Compiling xxdiff:: cd xxdiff/src make -f Makefile.bootstrap # Generate the 'Makefile' file. make # Build xxdiff Notes ~~~~~ * For a long time, xxdiff was based on qt3, but was finally ported to qt4 in november 2010 by Alexandre Feblot. * Note: xxdiff used to require the obsolete tmake tool, but has been ported to use qmake in may 2006. * Depending on your platform, you may have to set your QTDIR manually (e.g. to /usr/lib/qt4) * You may have to edit CONFIG to include the option 'thread' or not, depending on if you have only the multi-threaded version of qt installed or not (libqt-mt). xxdiff does not specifically need it and can build and run without the multi-threaded version of Qt. Re-run take after making the change. Installation ------------ :: su - install xxdiff/src/xxdiff /usr/X11R6/bin You can generate HTML documentation with ``xxdiff --help-html`` if you want. Packaging ========= * Source packaging: adm/release_src * Simple binary packaging (all platforms): adm/release_bin * Redhat Linux packaging: adm/release_i386_rpm * Debian Linux packaging: See web page for link to current port. * OpenBSD packaging: In the ports tree. * SGI packaging: adm/release_mips_tardist Note: to install the SGI package you'll need fw_qt and it's prerequisites. Installing from tardist package:: inst -f xxdiff-<version>.mips.tardist > go The author's own release process -------------------------------- 0) check 1a) the doc files have been generated. 1b) the version number is correct 1) apply release tag to cvs files 2) build (see instructions above) 2a) run tests in xxdiff/test 3) build packages (see instructions above) 4) distribute - add release to sourceforge project - upload to sourceforge htdocs (secondary download location) - upload to sourceforge web page - upload to rhcontrib.bero.org 5) announce - sourceforge project release announcement - update web site - freshmeat - rh-contrib (bero) - qt-interest - cervisia list - wincvs list - sgi freeware - discreet