X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.checkout;h=3f85767db28be5b52235f7fa6507a78f1bcccda4;hp=68b686f3e07e155240b9e0dcc89cb2ff99cd31ec;hb=d6065c927eb23cd674b00ccf88b171c70f1962d0;hpb=87187410031ff1592bb33045df54cdd076702fba diff --git a/README.checkout b/README.checkout index 68b686f3..3f85767d 100644 --- a/README.checkout +++ b/README.checkout @@ -1,23 +1,23 @@ Important note: -To reduce bandwidth and needless updates, the Subversion tree does not +To reduce bandwidth and needless updates, the source repository does not contain automatically-generated files, even when those files are normally present in the distribution tarballs. -Therefore, if you're building from the sources obtained via -Subversion, you'll need to have at least GNU Autoconf (2.59 or newer) -installed on your system. To generate the Info documentation, you -will need the GNU Texinfo package. Finally, if your system does not -have gettext and you want the support for internationalized messages, -you will also need GNU gettext. The three packages are available from -/> and its mirrors (please choose -one close to you), listed at . +Therefore, if you're building from the sources obtained from the source +repository, you'll need to have at least GNU Autoconf (2.61 or newer) +and GNU Automake (1.10 or newer) installed on your system. To generate +the Info documentation, you will need the GNU Texinfo package. Those +packages are available from /> and +its mirrors, listed at . Generating +the wget.1 manpage, and running some tests, requires Perl. -In case you aren't used to running autoconf manually to generate the +In case you aren't used to running autotools manually to generate the necessary configure script, a script called autogen.sh has been provided, and may be invoked using `./autogen.sh'. Once the script has completed, the configure script will reside in the current -directory and you can proceed to build Wget in the usual fashion. +directory and you can proceed to build Wget as described in the +`INSTALL' file. To summarize, once you've checked out wget from the Subversion repository, the commands you'll execute will be as follows (barring