James Tappin wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2001 16:04, Emmanuel Fleury wrote:
>
> Yes they are. CVS checkouts are one level (more or less) earlier in the build
> process than the usual distribution tarballs.
>
> To build a cvs checkout (for ALSA, other packages have different patterns),
> use:
> ./cvscompile <configure options>
>
> This makes the Makefile.in (etc), runs configure and make, then you make
> install as usual.
>
> You need to have autoconf, automake and libtool installed on your system for
> the first stage to work.
Perfect !!!! :-)
This is cool. It works perfectly.
The only thing which is puzzling me, is that it is completely undocumented !
Why don't you add some lines in the INSTALL file. Something like this:
Compiling from a CVS snapshot
=============================
1) Check the possible options:
./cvscompile --help
2) Run: ./cvscompile <options>
Actually these few lines could have been very useful for me (at least!).
Regards
--
Emmanuel
Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
-- Robert Benchley
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