| 1 | -*-text-*-
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| 2 |
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| 3 | Obtaining CVS Code
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| 4 | ------------------
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| 5 |
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| 6 | This seems redundant, since if you're reading this you most likely have
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| 7 | already performed this step; however, for completeness, you can obtain
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| 8 | the GNU make source code via anonymous CVS from the FSF's Savannah
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| 9 | project <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make/>:
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| 10 |
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| 11 | $ cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/make co make
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| 12 |
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| 13 | You might want to use the "-z3" option to get compression, and you most
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| 14 | certainly will want the -P option to avoid unneeded directories
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| 15 | cluttering up your source. Personally I add these (as well as -dP for
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| 16 | update) to my ~/.cvsrc file.
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| 17 |
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| 18 |
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| 19 | If you have an older version of CVS, you might have to login first.
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| 20 | There is no password; just hit the ENTER key if you are asked for one.
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| 21 |
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| 22 |
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| 23 | Building From CVS
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| 24 | -----------------
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| 25 |
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| 26 | To build GNU make from CVS, you will need Autoconf, Automake, and
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| 27 | Gettext, and any tools that those utilities require (GNU m4, Perl,
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| 28 | etc.). See the configure.in file to find the minimum versions of each
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| 29 | of these tools. You will also need a copy of wget.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | After checking out the code, you will need to perform these steps to get
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| 32 | to the point where you can run "make".
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| 33 |
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| 34 |
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| 35 | 1) $ autoreconf -i -s
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| 36 |
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| 37 | This rebuilds all the things that need rebuilding, installing
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| 38 | missing files as symbolic links.
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| 39 |
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| 40 | You may get warnings here about missing files like README, etc.
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| 41 | Ignore them, they are harmless.
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| 42 |
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| 43 |
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| 44 | 2) $ ./configure
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| 45 |
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| 46 | Generate a Makefile
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| 47 |
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| 48 |
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| 49 | 3) $ make update
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| 50 |
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| 51 | Use wget to retrieve various other files that GNU make relies on,
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| 52 | but does not keep in its own source tree.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | NB: You may need GNU make to correctly perform this step; if you use
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| 55 | a platform-local make you may get problems with missing files in doc/.
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| 56 |
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| 57 |
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| 58 | At this point you have successfully brought your CVS copy of the GNU
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| 59 | make source directory up to the point where it can be treated
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| 60 | more-or-less like the official package you would get from ftp.gnu.org.
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| 61 | That is, you can just run:
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| 62 |
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| 63 | $ make && make check && make install
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| 64 |
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| 65 | to build and install GNU make.
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| 66 |
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| 67 |
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| 68 | Creating a Package
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| 69 | ------------------
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| 70 |
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| 71 | Once you have performed the above steps (including the configuration and
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| 72 | build) you can create a GNU make package. This is very simple, just
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| 73 | run:
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| 74 |
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| 75 | $ make dist-gzip
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| 76 |
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| 77 | and, if you like:
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| 78 |
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| 79 | $ make dist-bzip2
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| 80 |
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| 81 | Even better, you should run this:
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| 82 |
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| 83 | $ make distcheck
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| 84 |
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| 85 | Which will build both .gz and .bz2 package files, then unpack them into
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| 86 | a temporary location, try to build them, and repack them, verifying that
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| 87 | everything works, you get the same results, _and_ no extraneous files
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| 88 | are left over after the "distclean" rule--whew!! Now, _that_ is why
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| 89 | converting to Automake is worth the trouble! A big "huzzah!" to Tom
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| 90 | T. and the AutoToolers!
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| 91 |
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| 92 |
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| 93 | That's it, you're done!
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| 94 |
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| 95 |
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| 96 | Appendix A - For The Brave
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| 97 | --------------------------
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| 98 |
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| 99 | For those of you who trust me implicitly, or are just brave (or
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| 100 | foolhardy), here is a canned sequence of commands to build a GNU make
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| 101 | distribution package from a virgin CVS source checkout (assuming all the
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| 102 | prerequisites are available of course).
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| 103 |
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| 104 | This list is eminently suitable for a quick swipe o' the mouse and a
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| 105 | swift click o' mouse-2 into an xterm. Go for it!
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| 106 |
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| 107 |
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| 108 | autoreconf -i -s
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| 109 | ./configure
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| 110 | make update
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| 111 | make
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| 112 | make check
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| 113 | make distcheck
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