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diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha deleted file mode 100644 index 53926ff..0000000 --- a/README-alpha +++ /dev/null @@ -1,143 +0,0 @@ -This is the GNU mailutils package. -This document describes the actions needed to build the pre-release -or CVS version of the package. See end of file for copying conditions. - -* Introduction - - This is a *pre-release* version, and not ready for production use -yet. If you are taking source from CVS, you will need to have libtool, -automake, and autoconf installed to help contribute. See the chapter -`Building' for the detailed instructions. The script autogen.sh is -provided to help autoconfigure mailutils from the cvs src. After you -run autogen.sh, there should be a file 'INSTALL' with (generic) -installation instructions. Package-specific installation instructions -are set forth in the file README. - - Please, note that the accompanying documentation may be inaccurate -or incomplete. The ChangeLog file is the authoritative documentation of -all recent changes. - -Report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org> - -* Checking Out the Sources - -The following instructions apply if you wish to obtain sources from -the CVS repository: - -To checkout the source tree from CVS issue the following command: - -CVS_RSH=ssh \ - cvs -d :ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/mailutils checkout mailutils - -Make sure SSHv2 is used. - - This will give you read-only access. If you think you need write access, -contact the mailing list. - -* Building - - In order to build this you will first need to have right versions -of autotools and some auxiliary GNU programs. At the time of this -writing these are: - - Package Version (>=) - ======== ============ - automake 1.8.5 - autoconf 2.59 - libtool 1.5.8 - gettext 0.14.1 - gawk 3.1.3 - - You will also need bison (or yacc) and flex. The grammar sources -were written so that any version of yacc or bison should be able to -handle them, however using recent bison is anyway recommended. The lex -sources could theoretically be compiled with AT&T lex. I have not -tested this, however, so using flex is higly recommended. I use flex -2.5.4. - - To prepare the package for building run autogen.sh. Then run -./configure with the desired options (See INSTALL and README for the -detailed instructions). Finally, run make. Notice that the first make -of the package should be made in the source directory. Subsequent -makes can use build directory different from the source one. - -* Debugging - - To enable additional debugging information, configure the package -with --enable-debug option. - - Unless you compile mailutils statically, you will need to run -following command to debug any utility: - - libtool --mode execute gdb UTILITY-NAME - - Sometimes it is impossible or inconvenient to start a utility from -the debugger. In this case, use --HANG option, which is supported by -any of the mailutils programs. The option instructs the program to -sleep for a given number of seconds (3600 by default) right after -startup. For example, to debug `mimeview' utility, run - - mimeview --HANG [OTHER-OPTIONS] - -Then switch to another terminal, get the PID of the ivoked utility and -attach to it using gdb: - - gdb mimeview PID - -Once in gdb, issue the following command - - set _argp_hang=0 - -Now set your breakpoints and proceed as usual. - -* Importing gnulib files - - Mailutils imports several source files from gnulib. These go -mainly to the conventional library libmuaux (directory lib/), but -several of them are incorporated into the main library libmailutils -(directory mailbox/). The imported sources are kept in the CVS -repository to avoid using eventually unstable versions appearing in -the main gnulib CVS. Once in a time we update the sources. The update -procedure is quite straightforward: change to the root directory of -the mailutils tree and run `gnulib-sync' script: - - $ cd mailutils - $ scripts/gnulib-sync $HOME/src/gnulib - - The script takes a single argument: name of the directory with the -copy of gnulib source tree (see http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib -for information on how to obtain gnulib sources). After incorporating -the files, gnulib-sync leaves in the current directory two files named -gnulib.changelog and gnulib.cvs. The file gnulib.changelog contains -an entry to be prepended to ChangeLog, the file gnulib.cvs is a shell -script with the commands necessary to incorporate all the changes into -CVS. - - If you need to add more gnulib modules to mailutils, add their -names to gnulib.modules file, following the instructions in its -heading comment. Please avoid placing modules in :mailutils section, as -this may lead to unwanted name clashes when linking user programs with -libmailutils. - -* Copyright information: - -Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - - Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies - of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the - copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, - thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. - - Permission is granted to distribute modified versions - of this document, or of portions of it, - under the above conditions, provided also that they - carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. - - -Local Variables: -mode: outline -paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" -version-control: never -End: - - |