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Grecs README
Copyright (C) 2011 Sergey Poznyakoff
See the end of file for copying conditions.

* Introduction

This file provides information on how to build a standalone
version of Grecs from sources obtained from Git.

For information about the standalone version, see the file
README.standalone in this directory.

For a detailed description of Grecs, see the documentation in
the doc/ subdirectory, or visit http://grecs.man.gnu.org.ua.

* Overview

Grecs is a library for parsing structured configuration files from
C programs. A structured configuration file has hierarchical
structure, with block statements enclosing lower-level
statements. Such configurations files are used by many programs, such
as, e.g. Bind or Dico.

Grecs provides primitives for parsing such files into an internal
tree-like structure and for basic operations on such structures. These
operations include value lookups by keyword paths, traversing trees
recursively, joining several trees together, reductions, etc.

* Requirements

If you have taken the sources from GIT you will need the following
packages to build the standalone library.  I don't make any extra
effort to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make
sure that you have the latest stable version.

- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
- Flex <http://flex.sourceforge.net/>
- M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
- Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>

* Bootstrapping

Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
Grecs from GIT. The next step is to prepare the sources for standalone
build:

1. Create a placeholder for ChangeLog file:

  > ChangeLog

This file is needed for the bootstrap process.  It will be replaced
with the actual ChangeLog after make.

2. Bootstrap the package:

  autoreconf -f -i -s

3. Configure and make:

  ./configure
  make

* Bug reporting.		

Send bug reports to <gray+grecs@gnu.org.ua>. 


* Copyright information:

Copyright (C) 2011 Sergey Poznyakoff

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