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| author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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| date | Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:50:32 -0500 |
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| 9946 | 1 -*- outline -*- |
| 2 | |
| 3 This file attempts to describe the rules to use when hacking Octave. | |
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4 DO NOT put this file into the distribution. |
| 9946 | 5 |
| 6 * Working from the repository | |
| 7 | |
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8 These notes are intended to help people working on sources checked-out from |
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9 the savannah source code repository. |
| 9946 | 10 These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution |
| 11 tarball. | |
| 12 | |
| 13 ** Requirements | |
| 14 | |
| 15 We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the repository. | |
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16 This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges, etc.), but imposes |
| 9946 | 17 more requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out |
| 18 sources. For example, you have to use the latest stable versions of | |
| 19 the maintainer tools we depend upon, including: | |
| 20 | |
| 21 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/> | |
| 22 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/> | |
| 23 - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/> | |
| 24 - Flex <http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/> | |
| 25 - Git <http://git-scm.com/> | |
| 26 - Gnulib <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/> | |
| 27 - GNU Make <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/> | |
| 28 - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/> | |
| 29 - Libtool <http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/> | |
| 30 - Mercurial <http://mercurial.selenic.com/> | |
| 31 - Perl <http://www.cpan.org/> | |
| 32 - Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/> | |
| 33 - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/> | |
| 34 | |
| 35 Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful. | |
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36 Later, after synchronizing from the repository, a plain `make' should |
| 9946 | 37 be sufficient. |
| 38 | |
| 39 ** First checkout | |
| 40 | |
| 41 Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out | |
| 42 this package from the repository. For the record, you will find all the | |
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43 relevant information on downloading sources at: |
| 9946 | 44 |
| 45 http://savannah.gnu.org/hg/?group=octave | |
| 46 | |
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47 After checking out Octave, you will need to run the autogen.sh script: |
| 9946 | 48 |
| 49 $ ./autogen.sh | |
| 50 | |
| 51 This script will examine the source tree and generate some Makefile | |
| 52 fragments and then runs the bootstrap script. The bootstrap script comes | |
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53 from gnulib, but is kept in the Octave source archive. It should be |
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54 updated from the gnulib sources as necssary. The bootstrap script takes |
| 9946 | 55 care of checking out a copy of gnulib, running the autotools, and |
| 9949 | 56 generating the configure script. |
| 57 | |
| 58 If you have a copy of gnulib in some directory apart from the Octave | |
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59 source tree, then pass the name of the directory containing gnulib-tool |
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60 to the bootstrap script using the option: |
| 9949 | 61 |
| 62 --gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME | |
| 63 | |
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64 If you have downloaded gnulib directly, DIRNAME will be the directory where |
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65 gnulib was unpacked. If you have installed gnulib using a package |
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66 manager, DIRNAME is likely to be /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin(where the |
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67 gnulib-tool script resides). |
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69 By using an external gnulib directory, you can share a single gnulib source |
| 9949 | 70 tree among several projects. Regardless of the location of the gnulib |
| 71 sources, the bootstrap script will try to update them if it appears | |
| 72 that they are checked out using git. Otherwise, it is your | |
| 73 responsibility to keep the gnulib sources up to date. They change | |
| 74 frequently, so the best way to stay current is probably to use git to | |
| 75 do the job. | |
| 76 | |
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77 Additional options besides --gnulib-srcdir can be passed to autogen.sh and |
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78 they will be forwarded without modification to the bootstrap script. |
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79 |
| 9949 | 80 Once the autogen.sh and bootstrap scripts complete successfully, you may |
| 81 run | |
| 9946 | 82 |
| 83 $ ./configure | |
| 84 $ make | |
| 85 $ make check | |
| 86 | |
| 87 At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy, | |
| 88 and the master copy: | |
| 89 | |
| 90 $ hg diff | |
| 91 | |
| 92 should output no difference. | |
| 93 | |
| 94 Additional information about coding style | |
| 95 | |
| 96 This file will eventually be extended to explain more about updating | |
| 97 Octave, preparing patches, and making releases. | |
| 98 | |
| 99 Enjoy! | |
| 100 | |
| 101 ----- | |
| 102 | |
| 103 Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton | |
| 104 | |
| 105 This file is part of Octave. | |
| 106 | |
| 107 Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
| 108 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the | |
| 109 Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at | |
| 110 your option) any later version. | |
| 111 | |
| 112 Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT | |
| 113 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or | |
| 114 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License | |
| 115 for more details. | |
| 116 | |
| 117 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 118 along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see | |
| 119 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
| 120 | |
| 121 | |
| 122 This file was adapted for Octave from the HACKING file that is part of | |
| 123 GNU Bison, which contained the following Copyright notice: | |
| 124 | |
| 125 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 | |
| 126 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
| 127 | |
| 128 This file is part of GNU Bison. | |
| 129 | |
| 130 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| 131 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| 132 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | |
| 133 (at your option) any later version. | |
| 134 | |
| 135 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 136 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 137 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 138 GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 139 | |
| 140 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 141 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |