On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:16:44PM -0800, Jeff Trefftzs wrote: > A good Compiling the GIMP from a Tarball HOW-TO seems like a > really good idea. I think this outline covers the main points, > but certainly could use some rearranging. I hereby offer it up > for tweaks and adjustments.
This may be useful, but is meant as a followup to the posts about documenting building from CVS. In the gimp-print source, there is a file `doc/README.maintaining' that describes how to use the autotools to build from CVS. It covers how to set up a checked-out CVS (or tarball) tree, and use configure (but that's documented fully in README). It also goes into how all the autotools work together, and how to set up the build scripts manually, or with autogen.sh automatically. Additionally, it describes briefly how to hack configure.in and Makefile.am's. I lost the message about documenting building from CVS, but you might find parts of this useful (there's little point in writing the same thing twice). Some parts are specific to gimp-print, but you can eaily cut them out or modify them. I spotted a couple of typos just now, and I also have an updated copy for autoconf 2.52 and automake 1.5. See: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gimp-print/print/doc/README.maintaining?rev=1.8&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup or the source. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers
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