Re: Hey all, I would like to help write some docs

[Jeroen Dekkers]

At Wed, 16 Jun 2004 02:45:57 -0400,
B. Douglas Hilton wrote:
> 
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> Here is a patch which updates the README and provides instructions for 
> building on systems with buggy autoreconf (like Debian unstable). I also 
> added sample steps for building Pistachio and made a change to the 
> sample GRUB menu.lst entry to reflect that sigma0 gets installed into 
> /libexec/l4 by default.
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
> 
> diff -cr hurd-l4/README hurd-l4a/README
> *** hurd-l4/README    Fri Sep 19 10:18:04 2003
> --- hurd-l4a/README   Wed Jun 16 02:44:12 2004
> ***************
> *** 22,27 ****
> --- 22,36 ----
>   $ cp wortel/wortel /l4/boot
>   $ cp physmem/physmem /l4/boot
>   
> + On Debian systems try the following if autoreconf fails:
> + 
> + $ aclocal-1.8
> + $ autoconf2.50
> + $ autoheader2.50
> + $ automake-1.8 -a
> + 
> + Then proceed as above from the ./configure step
> + 

You should just do
"ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.8 AUTOMAKE=automake-1.8 autoreconf" when "automake"
and "aclocal" point to an old version.

Jeroen Dekkers