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authortjg <tjg>2002-07-25 12:17:21 +0000
committerToby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>2015-05-16 21:23:22 +0100
commit3616be790d722e6037bd436c654d9a2c0c48a7e7 (patch)
tree0497e7cecadb1a25fc607a92eec9f9cdf0b43fce /INSTALL
parent604e3fa3c170ab78dc15c6ffded55fbc6ed4a041 (diff)
s/LIBS/LDFLAGS/
mention that it doesn't work on CygWin
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@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@ libraries. For a summary of all options, run `sh configure --help'.
You can specify Makefile variables by setting the corresponding
environment variables. For example, you might want to set `CC=cc', to
-prevent configure looking for gcc, or set an initial value for `LIBS',
-as in the example below. It is a good idea to specify static linking
-(unless you are linking against a dynamic readline library)---if you are
-using gcc, you can do this by setting `CFLAGS=-static'.
+prevent configure looking for gcc, or set an initial value for
+`LDFLAGS', as in the example below. It is a good idea to specify
+static linking (unless you are linking against a dynamic readline
+library)---if you are using gcc, you can do this by setting
+`CFLAGS=-static'.
Here are the configure options you may want to use, in approximately
descending order of usefulness.
@@ -135,6 +136,10 @@ trip' to do this. This will produce some output, and should end with
"trip is complete". If the trip instead ends with "trip took a wrong
turn..." please contact the maintainer.
+In this release, `make trip' will fail on a file system which does not
+implement Unix semantics (specifically permissions bits). This means
+that `make trip' is not useful under CygWin, for instance.
+
LARGE FILE SUPPORT