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authorgdt <gdt>2004-11-15 15:34:50 +0000
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Add $Id:$.
Add 'philosophy' note about balance between modern and being ok for those tracking stable. question 4.7-4 as a texinfo version (no such nomenclature on texinfo site - something specific to some Linux distribution?). Note that NetBSD provides texinfo 4.6 in the base system.
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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# $Id$
+
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Building and Installing Quagga:
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ Building Quagga from CVS checkouts:
In order to build from CVS, you will need recent versions of several GNU
tools, particularly autoconf, automake, libtool and texinfo. Note that the
-CVS snapshots on the Quagga website do not require these tools, everything
+CVS snapshots on the Quagga website do not require these tools; everything
is already setup ready to run 'configure', and if you have trouble building
from CVS checkout it is recommended that you try a CVS snapshot instead.
@@ -47,4 +49,18 @@ need to run make to create this file.
Please refer to "Building and Installing Quagga" above for further
instructions.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Notes on required versions:
+
+The general goal is to use a modern baseline of tools, while not
+imposing pain on those tracking stable distributions. The notes below
+explain what versions are present in various environments.
+
+TODO:
+texinfo 4.7-4 is not a version of texinfo, per
+http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/.
+
+NetBSD pkgsrc provides automake 1.9.1 autoconf 2.59 libtool 1.5.6
+NetBSD 1.6.2 and 2.0 provide texinfo 4.6.
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