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@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ to build rc in a different directory). BUILD AND CONFIGURATION OPTIONS 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 against---see the README file for details of where to find these +behaviour. You can also select a command line history library to link +against---see the rc web page for details of where to find these libraries. For a summary of all options, run `sh configure --help'. You can specify Makefile variables by setting the corresponding @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ descending order of usefulness. --with-editline - This option tells rc to use the editline package (see the README file + This option tells rc to use the editline package (see the web page for details) to provide EMACS style command line editing and history. If the editline library is not installed in a standard place, you can tell configure where to find it by setting the environment variable @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ descending order of usefulness. --with-vrl - This option tells rc to use the vrl package (see the README file for + This option tells rc to use the vrl package (see the web page for details) to provide EMACS style command line editing and history. As for `--with-editline', you may need to set the environment variable LDFLAGS appropriately. @@ -61,13 +61,13 @@ descending order of usefulness. --with-history Use this option if you want to build and install the programs that - support a crude history mechanism. + support a crude command-line history mechanism. You can't use more than one of `--with-editline', `--with-vrl', and `--with-readline' at the same time. If you have any of these you probably don't want to bother with `--with-history'. - --prefix /path + --prefix=/path By default, `prefix' is /usr/local, which means that `make install' installs rc (and possibly the history programs) in /usr/local/bin, and @@ -94,10 +94,10 @@ probably don't want to bother with `--with-history'. --disable-def-interp --enable-def-interp=/bin/foo - By default, a program that fails with "Exec format error" is handed to - /bin/sh. This does the Right Thing for scripts that start with `:' to - indicate that they are sh scripts. You can disable this behaviour - entirely, or specify a different default interpreter. + By default, a program that fails with ENOEXEC (Exec format error) is + handed to /bin/sh. This does the Right Thing for scripts that start + with `:' to indicate that they are sh scripts. You can disable this + behaviour entirely, or specify a different default interpreter. --disable-def-path --enable-def-path "/usr/local/bin","/usr/bin" @@ -129,11 +129,11 @@ probably don't want to bother with `--with-history'. dying or discarding the variables. This option disables the default behaviour. You are unlikely to want this option on any Unix system. -After you've built rc, I recommend that you run it through a test script -to gain some confidence that all is working well. Type `make 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. +After you've built rc, I recommend that you run it through the test +script to gain some confidence that all is working well. Type `make +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. LARGE FILE SUPPORT |