Re: I may be stupid, but I can't build CVS

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

Akim> I'll start from scratch myself, and will write down a README-CVS
Akim> for this case.  I'll be back to you once I'm done.

I'm installing the following file in CVS Bison.  I hope it will work
fine for you.  I also realized that I was using a better autoreconf,
which should make it easier (I have not tried with the old one), so
maybe you'll want a newer Autoconf.

Index: README-cvs
===================================================================
RCS file: README-cvs
diff -N README-cvs
--- /dev/null   1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ README-cvs 11 Apr 2002 16:58:41 -0000
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+These notes intend to help people working on the CVS versions of
+Bison.  Only the sources are installed in the CVS repository (to ease
+the maintenance, merges etc.), therefore you will have to the
+maintainer tools we depend upon:
+
+- Automake 1.6 or 1.6.1
+- Autoconf 2.53 or better
+  (actually, CVS Autoconf provides a better autoreconf...
+   http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/autoconf-2.53a.tar.gz)
+- Gettext 0.10.1
+
+Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful,
+later, a plain `cvs update -P & make' should be sufficient.
+
+* First CVS checkout
+
+Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
+Bison from CVS.  For the records, you will find all the relevant
+information on:
+
+       http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=56
+
+The next step is asking the installation of all the missing files:
+
+       $ autoreconf -f -v -i
+
+Unfortunately, this will change a few files that should not have been
+replaced, so remove them, and ask for the original copies:
+
+       $ rm Makefile.am configure.in m4/Makefile.am
+       $ cvs update
+
+(Hopefully, these steps will no longer be needed in the future.)
+Because of these changes, running autoreconf a second, and last time,
+is needed.  Pay attention that the options are different this time:
+
+       $ autoreconf -v -f
+
+And there you are!  Just
+
+       $ ./configure && make && make check
+
+At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
+and the CVS master copy:
+
+       $ cvs diff
+
+should output no difference, except maybe the date in po/*.po files.
+
+Enjoy!
+
+
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