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| author | tgoodwin <tgoodwin> | 1998-02-19 11:56:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Toby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org> | 2015-05-16 21:23:04 +0100 |
| commit | 13d5710c5af78365a5dd2699e8bad15b93aee773 (patch) | |
| tree | 3834d0a3ecf1b41c96f93fe371658ef570cb5068 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 2f7e46ad7e270716d9e444591b4919ccf90c61f1 (diff) | |
separate instructions for building in a separate directory
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -12,10 +12,8 @@ need to configure, build, test, and install rc. $ make trip # make install -This will build rc in the source directory. You can also run these -commands from any other directory, specifying the path to the configure -script, and rc will be built in that directory. This is particularly -useful if you are building rc for multiple architectures. +This will build rc in the source directory (see below for details on how +to build rc in a different directory). There are lots of options you can give to configure to modify rc's behaviour. You can also select a command line history library to link @@ -120,6 +118,14 @@ to see that everything is ok. Type `make trip' for this. This will produce some output, and end with "trip is complete". If the trip ends with "trip took a wrong turn..." please contact the maintainer. +BUILDING IN ANOTHER DIRECTORY + +If you have a suitable `make', you can build rc in a different directory +from where the sources are held. This is particularly useful if you +are building rc for multiple architectures. All you need do is specify +the path to the configure script in the first step. Suitable `make's +include GNU, and SunOS, but not Irix. + YACC The yacc that Sun ships with SunOS 4.1.1 calls malloc() to allocate |