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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2004-09-06 14:20:27 +0000
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2004-09-06 14:20:27 +0000
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@@ -11,23 +11,68 @@ automake 1.8
libtool 1.4.3
gettext 0.13
-To build the configuration suite, run
+Before building the package, run "bootstrap". It obtains various
+additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
+site and prepares the source directory for building.
- ./autogen.sh
+When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
+paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah
+using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar
+page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration
+process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases.
+Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
+
+ --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where gnulib
+ sources reside. Use this if you already
+ have gnulib sources on your machine, and
+ do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
+ them again.
+
+ --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where paxutils
+ sources reside. Use this if you already
+ have paxutils sources on your machine, and
+ do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
+ them again.
+
+ --cvs-auth=METHOD Set the CVS access method used for downloading
+ gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords
+ accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs
+ repository).
+
+ --cvs-user=USERNAME Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
+ the gnulib repository.
+
+ --no-po Do not download po files.
+
+Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap
+will set the variable CVS_RSH to "ssh", unless it is already set to
+some other value.
Then, configure and build the package as usual.
Report bugs to <bug-cpio@gnu.org>
-To retrieve the sources from CVS issue the following command:
+
+
+Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU cpio.
+
+GNU cpio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
-CVS_RSH=ssh \
- cvs -d :ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/cpio checkout cpio
+GNU cpio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
-Make sure SSHv2 is used.
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with GNU cpio; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
+the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-This will give you read-only access. If you think you need write access,
-contact the maintainer.

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