Please review. Tim
From 959fbbe23d329e3aa60110ab384bf8ebc2b71620 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Tim Rühsen?= <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:24:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.checkout to libpcre, pkg-config, GnuTLS
--- ChangeLog | 6 +++++ README.checkout | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 33433ed..8a1d60f 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2014-12-11 Tim Ruehsen <[email protected]> + + * README.checkout: Add description for libpcre, + add description for pkg-config, add description of GnuTLS, + add 2014 copyright year, use ASCII copyright characters + 2014-12-10 Tim Ruehsen <[email protected]> * configure.ac: Check for pcre.h diff --git a/README.checkout b/README.checkout index 2bfc83f..454da0b 100644 --- a/README.checkout +++ b/README.checkout @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Compiling From Repository Sources does not contain automatically-generated files, even when these are normally present in the distribution tarballs. Therefore, to build GNU Wget from the sources in the repository, you'll need to have one or - more of the following (note that gettext, OpenSSL, libidn, libiconv - and libpsl are not absolutely required): + more of the following (note that gettext, OpenSSL, GnuTLS, libidn, + libiconv, libpsl, libpcre and pkg-config are not absolutely required): * [20]autoconf (currently, GNU Wget requires version 2.61). This is needed to generate the configure script from configure.in. This is @@ -46,30 +46,44 @@ Compiling From Repository Sources to export M4=<new m4 path>, to be sure that autoconf/automake use it instead of the old one. - * [29]OpenSSL to handle encrypted web sessions. You almost certainly - want this. It is not enough to have the library installed; you need - to have the header files available to compile against as well. For - GNU/Linux systems, this usually means installing a "developer" - package for openssl (for example, [30]Debian systems require - installation of the libssl-dev package). Alternatively, you can - compile GNU Wget against the [31]GNUTLS library instead, by - specifying --with-ssl=gnutls to the ./configure script; however, - building against GNUTLS is currently experimental, and not - officially supported. If you have OpenSSL and its development - headers installed, but don't want to build Wget with it, specify - --without-ssl to the ./configure script. - - * [32]libidn is required for IDN/IRI support (non-ASCII characters + * [29]GnuTLS to allow encrypted data transfer (HTTPS). + You need the header files and the library installed. + As an alternative, you can use [30]OpenSSL by specifying + --with-ssl=openssl to the ./configure script. + If you do not want HTTPS support, specify --without-ssl to the + ./configure script. + + * [30]OpenSSL to allow encrypted data transfer (HTTPS) an an + alternative to [31]GnuTLS. + You need the header files and the library installed. + + * [31]libidn is required for IDN/IRI support (non-ASCII characters within what would otherwise be URLs). - * [33]libiconv is required on non-GNU systems, for IDN/IRI support. + * [32]libiconv is required on non-GNU systems, for IDN/IRI support. On GNU systems, the functionality provided by libiconv is already present in the system libraries. - * [34]git is used to fetch gnulib files trough the bootstrap.sh script. + * [33]git is used to fetch gnulib files trough the bootstrap.sh script. + + * [34]libpsl is required for using a public suffix list to check for valid + cookie domains. You need the header files and the library installed. + + * [35]libpcre is required for using Perl-compatible regular expressions + with --accept-regex and --reject-regex. You need the header files and + the library installed to compile and link Wget with PCRE support. + + * [36]pkg-config helps the ./configure script to find installed libraries. + Most libraries provide a pkg-config file (.pc extension) with + information about dependencies, header file and library locations. + Distributions deliver their specific .pc file to each library. + If you want to compile+link against your own library version, make a + copy of the appropriate .pc file and amend it to your needs (e.g. edit + the line starting with prefix=). Before you execute the ./configure + script, set (and export) PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the directory where you + saved the .pc file. Example: + $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="." ./configure - * [35]libpsl is required for using a public suffix list to check for valid - cookie domains. For those who might be confused as to what to do once they check out the source code, considering configure and Makefile do not yet exist at @@ -99,7 +113,7 @@ Compiling From Repository Sources $ ./configure --enable-assert [other configure options] - Copyright � 2008,2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2008,2010,2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. @@ -120,8 +134,8 @@ Compiling From Repository Sources * [43]Valid HTML 4.01 __________________________________________________________________ - All content � 2007 Free Software Foundation. For terms of use, - redistribution, and modification, please see the [44]WikiLicense page. + All content (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation. For terms of use, + redistribution, and modification, please see the [45]WikiLicense page. References @@ -134,13 +148,13 @@ References 26. http://apthorpe.cynistar.net/code/configuring_cpan.html 27. http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ 28. http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ - 29. http://www.openssl.org/ - 30. http://www.debian.org/ - 31. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ - 32. http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/ - 33. http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ - 34. http://git-scm.com/ - 35. https://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl + 29. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ + 30. http://www.openssl.org/ + 31. http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/ + 32. http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ + 33. http://git-scm.com/ + 34. https://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl + 35. http://www.pcre.org 36. http://wget.addictivecode.org/CompilingRepoSources?action�it&editor=text 37. http://wget.addictivecode.org/CompilingRepoSources 38. http://wget.addictivecode.org/CompilingRepoSources?action=info -- 2.1.3
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