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@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ This is a manual method that will let you build in any directory outside the
am-utils source tree. It requires that your "make" program understand
VPATH. This can be used multiple times to build am-utils concurrently in
multiple (but different) directories. In fact, the buildall script
-described above.
+described above does precisely that, using the A.* subdirectories.
(4) If you need to configure am-utils with extra libraries and/or headers,
for example to add hesiod support, do so as follows:
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ for example to add hesiod support, do so as follows:
hlfsd, lib, etc, all you need to do to get a new version of am-utils is run
make.
-If you modify any of the files in the aux/ or conf/ directories, or any *.in
+If you modify any of the files in the m4/ or conf/ directories, or any *.in
or *.am file, then you must rebuild the configure script, Makefile.in files,
aclocal.m4, etc. The best way to do so is to run
@@ -83,12 +83,10 @@ or
./buildall -K
To be a developer and be able to run "bootstrap", you must have
-autoconf-2.13, automake-1.4, and libtool 1.3.5 installed on your system (or
+autoconf-2.50, automake-1.5, and libtool 1.4 installed on your system (or
later versions thereof). You no longer need to get my special version of
-automake. Note also the the bootstrap script and several other tools are
-not available in the regular distribution of am-utils, only though the CVS
-server for am-utils. Contact me if you'd like to be a maintainer and get
-access to the CVS server.
+automake. Contact me if you'd like to be a maintainer and get access to the
+CVS server.
After you've remade the basic configuration files you must rerun the
buildall script to rerun configure and then remake the binaries.
@@ -98,9 +96,9 @@ before. Let me know if you are having any problems with them. I fully
expect, at least initially, to have to be the sole developers of the M4
macros and let others concentrate on C sources.
-[E] Report all bugs to amd-dev@majordomo.cs.columbia.edu. Avoid reporting
-to my personal email address. It is important to involve the whole list in
-bug fixes etc.
+[E] Report all bugs to amd-dev@cs.columbia.edu. Avoid reporting to my
+personal email address. It is important to involve the whole list in bug
+fixes etc.
Good luck.
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