From b57536089cfcce4551bb585dad6646b48b687495 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gdt Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:34:50 +0000 Subject: 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. --- INSTALL.quagga.txt | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'INSTALL.quagga.txt') diff --git a/INSTALL.quagga.txt b/INSTALL.quagga.txt index e79e9dcf..ff6e6220 100644 --- a/INSTALL.quagga.txt +++ b/INSTALL.quagga.txt @@ -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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3