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-Here is the procedure for compiling and installing SKRIBE on a Unix system.
+Installation Instructions
+*************************
-
-Requirements
-************
+Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005,
+2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation gives
+unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
+
+Basic Installation
+==================
+
+Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
+configure, build, and install this package. The following
+more-detailed instructions are generic; see the `README' file for
+instructions specific to this package.
+
+ The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
+various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses
+those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
+It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
+definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
+you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, and a
+file `config.log' containing compiler output (useful mainly for
+debugging `configure').
+
+ It can also use an optional file (typically called `config.cache'
+and enabled with `--cache-file=config.cache' or simply `-C') that saves
+the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring. Caching is
+disabled by default to prevent problems with accidental use of stale
+cache files.
+
+ If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
+to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
+diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
+be considered for the next release. If you are using the cache, and at
+some point `config.cache' contains results you don't want to keep, you
+may remove or edit it.
+
+ The file `configure.ac' (or `configure.in') is used to create
+`configure' by a program called `autoconf'. You need `configure.ac' if
+you want to change it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version
+of `autoconf'.
+
+The simplest way to compile this package is:
+
+ 1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
+ `./configure' to configure the package for your system.
+
+ Running `configure' might take a while. While running, it prints
+ some messages telling which features it is checking for.
+
+ 2. Type `make' to compile the package.
+
+ 3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
+ the package.
+
+ 4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
+ documentation.
+
+ 5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
+ source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
+ files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
+ a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is
+ also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
+ for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get
+ all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
+ with the distribution.
+
+Compilers and Options
+=====================
+
+Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that the
+`configure' script does not know about. Run `./configure --help' for
+details on some of the pertinent environment variables.
+
+ You can give `configure' initial values for configuration parameters
+by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here
+is an example:
+
+ ./configure CC=c99 CFLAGS=-g LIBS=-lposix
+
+ *Note Defining Variables::, for more details.
+
+Compiling For Multiple Architectures
+====================================
+
+You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
+same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
+own directory. To do this, you can use GNU `make'. `cd' to the
+directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
+the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the
+source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
+
+ With a non-GNU `make', it is safer to compile the package for one
+architecture at a time in the source code directory. After you have
+installed the package for one architecture, use `make distclean' before
+reconfiguring for another architecture.
+
+Installation Names
+==================
- - GNU-MAKE is required.
- - BIGLOO 2.6b (or later) *or* SKTLOS 0.56 is required.
+By default, `make install' installs the package's commands under
+`/usr/local/bin', include files under `/usr/local/include', etc. You
+can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving
+`configure' the option `--prefix=PREFIX'.
+
+ You can specify separate installation prefixes for
+architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
+pass the option `--exec-prefix=PREFIX' to `configure', the package uses
+PREFIX as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
+Documentation and other data files still use the regular prefix.
+
+ In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
+options like `--bindir=DIR' to specify different values for particular
+kinds of files. Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
+you can set and what kinds of files go in them.
+
+ If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
+with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
+option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
+
+Optional Features
+=================
+
+Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
+`configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
+They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
+is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System). The
+`README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the
+package recognizes.
-Summary of a SKRIBE compilation, test and installation
-******************************************************
+ For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually
+find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,
+you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
+`--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.
- $ ./configure --with-bigloo|--with-stklos
- $ make
- $ make install
+Specifying the System Type
+==========================
- This procedure will self test SKRIBE because it will compile the various
- Skribe documents that implement the Skribe documentation.
+There may be some features `configure' cannot figure out automatically,
+but needs to determine by the type of machine the package will run on.
+Usually, assuming the package is built to be run on the _same_
+architectures, `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints a
+message saying it cannot guess the machine type, give it the
+`--build=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system
+type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name which has the form:
+ CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM
-Configuring SKRIBE
-******************
+where SYSTEM can have one of these forms:
- Configuring SKRIBE/BIGLOO
- *************************
+ OS KERNEL-OS
- 1.a Edit the `./etc/bigloo/configure' file and set the variables defined in the Use
- section (e.g. `bindir', `libdir', `mandir' and `docdir'). Note that
- if you leave these variable definitions blank the installation procedure
- will install Skribe at the same location as Bigloo.
+ See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If
+`config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
+need to know the machine type.
+
+ If you are _building_ compiler tools for cross-compiling, you should
+use the option `--target=TYPE' to select the type of system they will
+produce code for.
+
+ If you want to _use_ a cross compiler, that generates code for a
+platform different from the build platform, you should specify the
+"host" platform (i.e., that on which the generated programs will
+eventually be run) with `--host=TYPE'.
- 1.b Configure Skribe for your machine by invoking:
- `./configure --with-bigloo'
- or
- `./configure --with-bigloo --prefix <your-prefix>'
- or
- `./configure --with-bigloo --bigloo=<your-bigloo-compiler>'
- When the system is ready to be compiled, `configure' prints
- the message `configuration done.'.
+Sharing Defaults
+================
- The following command:
- `./configure --with-bigloo --help'
- displays the available options.
-
- The default configuration uses the C back-end. To produce a JVM version of
- SKRIBE, uses:
+If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share, you
+can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives default
+values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
+`configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
+`PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the
+`CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
+A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
- `./configure --with-bigloo --jvm'
+Defining Variables
+==================
- Configuring SKRIBE/STKLOS
- *************************
+Variables not defined in a site shell script can be set in the
+environment passed to `configure'. However, some packages may run
+configure again during the build, and the customized values of these
+variables may be lost. In order to avoid this problem, you should set
+them in the `configure' command line, using `VAR=value'. For example:
+
+ ./configure CC=/usr/local2/bin/gcc
+
+causes the specified `gcc' to be used as the C compiler (unless it is
+overridden in the site shell script).
- 1. Configure Skribe for your machine by invoking:
- `./configure --with-stklos'
- or
- `./configure --with-stklos --prefix <your-prefix>'
+Unfortunately, this technique does not work for `CONFIG_SHELL' due to
+an Autoconf bug. Until the bug is fixed you can use this workaround:
+
+ CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
-Compiling SKRIBE
-****************
+`configure' Invocation
+======================
- 2. Type:
- `make'
+`configure' recognizes the following options to control how it operates.
- This will compile:
- - the Skribe compiler: skribe
- - the Texinfo to Skribe translator: skribeinfo (*)
- - the BibTex to Skribe translator: skribebibtex (*)
- - the Skribe documentation (in manuals/man, manuals/user and
- manuals/expert).
+`--help'
+`-h'
+ Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
- (*) this tools is compiled only when SKRIBE is compiled with BIGLOO.
+`--version'
+`-V'
+ Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
+ script, and exit.
+`--cache-file=FILE'
+ Enable the cache: use and save the results of the tests in FILE,
+ traditionally `config.cache'. FILE defaults to `/dev/null' to
+ disable caching.
-Installing SKRIBE
-*****************
+`--config-cache'
+`-C'
+ Alias for `--cache-file=config.cache'.
- 3. Type:
- `make install'
+`--quiet'
+`--silent'
+`-q'
+ Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. To
+ suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
+ messages will still be shown).
- This install, the Skribe compiler, the Skribeinfo compiler, the
- various Skribe back-ends, the variable Skribe style files and
- the Skribe documentation.
+`--srcdir=DIR'
+ Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
+ `configure' can determine that directory automatically.
- This does not install the skribe.el emacs package.
+`configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options. Run
+`configure --help' for more details.
-
-Cleaning SKRIBE
-***************
-
- 4. Once, installed, you can type:
- `make clean'
- to remove all the useless files.
-
-
-Uninstalling SKRIBE
-*******************
-
- 5. To uninstall Skribe:
- `make uninstall'
-
-
-Unconfiguring SKRIBE
-********************
-
- 6. If you plan to re-install Skribe on a new platform. Before performing
- the all installation process (step 1 to 5) you must first remove the
- current configuration. For this type:
- `make distclean'
-
-