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diff --git a/usr.bin/less/INSTALL b/usr.bin/less/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8a7d026f700 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/less/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,146 @@ + This is a generic INSTALL file for utilities distributions. +If this package does not come with, e.g., installable documentation or +data files, please ignore the references to them below. + + The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for +various system-dependent variables used during compilation, and +creates the Makefile(s) (one in each subdirectory of the source +directory). In some packages it creates a C header file containing +system-dependent definitions. It also creates a file `config.status' +that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration. + +To compile this package: + +1. Configure the package for your system. + + Normally, you just `cd' to the directory containing the package's +source code and type `./configure'. If you're using `csh' on an old +version of System V, you might need to type `sh configure' instead to +prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself. + + Running `configure' takes awhile. While it is running, it +prints some messages that tell what it is doing. If you don't want to +see any messages, run `configure' with its standard output redirected +to `/dev/null'; for example, `./configure >/dev/null'. + + To compile the package in a different directory from the one +containing the source code, you must use a version of `make' that +supports the `VPATH' variable, such as 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 `..'. If +for some reason `configure' is not in the source code directory that +you are configuring, then it will report that it can't find the source +code. In that case, run `configure' with the option `--srcdir=DIR', +where DIR is the directory that contains the source code. + + By default, `make install' will install the package's files in +`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an +installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the +option `--prefix=PATH'. Alternately, you can do so by consistently +giving a value for the `prefix' variable when you run `make', e.g., + make prefix=/usr/gnu + make prefix=/usr/gnu install + + You can specify separate installation prefixes for +architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you +give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH' or set the `make' +variable `exec_prefix' to PATH, the package will use PATH as the prefix +for installing programs and libraries. Data files and documentation +will still use the regular prefix. Normally, all files are installed +using the same prefix. + + Some packages pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options to +`configure', where PACKAGE is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the +X Window System). They may also pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' +options, where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package. The +README should mention any `--with-' and `--enable-' options that the +package recognizes. + + `configure' also recognizes the following options: + +`--help' + Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit. + +`--quiet' +`--silent' + Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. + +`--verbose' + Print the results of the checks. + +`--version' + Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure' + script, and exit. + +`--x-includes=DIR' + X include files are in DIR. + +`--x-libraries=DIR' + X library files are in DIR. + + `configure' also accepts and ignores some other options. + + On systems that require unusual options for compilation or linking +that the package's `configure' script does not know about, you can give +`configure' initial values for variables by setting them in the +environment. In Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the +command line like this: + + CC='gcc -traditional' LIBS=-lposix ./configure + +On systems that have the `env' program, you can do it like this: + + env CC='gcc -traditional' LIBS=-lposix ./configure + + Here are the `make' variables that you might want to override with +environment variables when running `configure'. + + For these variables, any value given in the environment overrides the +value that `configure' would choose: + + - Variable: CC + C compiler program. The default is `cc'. + + - Variable: INSTALL + Program to use to install files. The default is `install' if you + have it, `cp' otherwise. + + For these variables, any value given in the environment is added to +the value that `configure' chooses: + + - Variable: DEFS + Configuration options, in the form `-Dfoo -Dbar...'. Do not use + this variable in packages that create a configuration header file. + + - Variable: LIBS + Libraries to link with, in the form `-lfoo -lbar...'. + + If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, we encourage +you to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and +mail diffs or instructions to the address given in the README so we +can include them in the next release. + +2. Type `make' to compile the package. If you want, you can override +the `make' variables CFLAGS and LDFLAGS like this: + + make CFLAGS=-O2 LDFLAGS=-s + +3. If the package comes with self-tests and you want to run them, +type `make check'. If you're not sure whether there are any, try it; +if `make' responds with something like + make: *** No way to make target `check'. Stop. +then the package does not come with self-tests. + +4. Type `make install' to install programs, data files, and +documentation. + +5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the +source directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the +Makefile(s), the header file containing system-dependent definitions +(if the package uses one), and `config.status' (all the files that +`configure' created), type `make distclean'. + + The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program +called `autoconf'. You only need it if you want to regenerate +`configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'. |