Re: [patch] README.W32.template

[Earnie Boyd]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 21:00:42 -0500
From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Note that this can't be done on Windows, only on UNIX.  Well, anyway,
I've never done it on Windows and I've never heard of anyone who has.
The tools required to build from the CVS archive (GNU m4, Perl, GNU
autoconf, GNU automake, and GNU gettext, at least) are easy to install
on UNIX systems but I don't know if they'll install properly on
Windows.


There should be no particular problem to install all those tools on a
Windows machine, but in general, there's a need to install a ported
Bash as well.
There should be no problem running these commands, assuming (I cannot
check that where I'm typing this) that they don't use something that
Windows disallows, like file names with forbidden character.
I should give a try sometime with MSYS.  I don't know why it wouldn't work.

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Re: [patch] README.W32.template

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 21:00:42 -0500
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Note that this can't be done on Windows, only on UNIX.  Well, anyway,
> I've never done it on Windows and I've never heard of anyone who has.
> The tools required to build from the CVS archive (GNU m4, Perl, GNU
> autoconf, GNU automake, and GNU gettext, at least) are easy to install
> on UNIX systems but I don't know if they'll install properly on
> Windows.

There should be no particular problem to install all those tools on a
Windows machine, but in general, there's a need to install a ported
Bash as well.

There should be no problem running these commands, assuming (I cannot
check that where I'm typing this) that they don't use something that
Windows disallows, like file names with forbidden character.



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Re: [patch] README.W32.template

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  jg> Ah, ok.  Where is the tarball release creation script please?

There isn't one: it's part of the makefile.  See the README.cvs file in
the GNU make CVS archive for instructions on how to build a tarball from
the CVS archive.

Note that this can't be done on Windows, only on UNIX.  Well, anyway,
I've never done it on Windows and I've never heard of anyone who has.
The tools required to build from the CVS archive (GNU m4, Perl, GNU
autoconf, GNU automake, and GNU gettext, at least) are easy to install
on UNIX systems but I don't know if they'll install properly on
Windows.

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Re: [patch] README.W32.template

[J. Grant]

Hello Paul,

on the 22/11/03 20:10, Paul D. Smith wrote:
%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  jg> Is there a reason why "template" was appended to this files name
  jg> in CVS?
Because during the creation of the tarball releases the file is
processed to replace tokens for the release #, etc. and added as just
"README.W32" in the distribution.
Ah, ok.  Where is the tarball release creation script please?

I will add some text along the lines of what you've suggested to that
README.  Thanks!
Great.

JG



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Re: [patch] README.W32.template

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  jg> Is there a reason why "template" was appended to this files name
  jg> in CVS?

Because during the creation of the tarball releases the file is
processed to replace tokens for the release #, etc. and added as just
"README.W32" in the distribution.


I will add some text along the lines of what you've suggested to that
README.  Thanks!

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