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diff --git a/mplib/INSTALL b/mplib/INSTALL deleted file mode 100755 index f448317..0000000 --- a/mplib/INSTALL +++ /dev/null @@ -1,118 +0,0 @@ -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. - -To compile this package: - -1. Configure the package for your system. In the directory that this -file is in, 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. - -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. - -Running `configure' takes a minute or two. While it is running, it -prints some messages that tell what it is doing. If you don't want to -see the 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 -`configure'. `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/lib, /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 regular prefix. - -Another `configure' option is useful mainly in `Makefile' rules for -updating `config.status' and `Makefile'. The `--no-create' option -figures out the configuration for your system and records it in -`config.status', without actually configuring the package (creating -`Makefile's and perhaps a configuration header file). Later, you can -run `./config.status' to actually configure the package. You can also -give `config.status' the `--recheck' option, which makes it re-run -`configure' with the same arguments you used before. This option is -useful if you change `configure'. - -Some packages pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options to `configure', -where PACKAGE is something like `gnu-libc' or `x' (for the X Window System). -The README should mention any --with- options that the package recognizes. - -`configure' ignores any other arguments that you give it. - -If your system requires unusual options for compilation or linking -that `configure' doesn't know about, you can give `configure' initial -values for some variables by setting them in the environment. In -Bourne-compatible shells, you can do that on the command line like -this: - CC='gcc -traditional' DEFS=-D_POSIX_SOURCE ./configure - -The `make' variables that you might want to override with environment -variables when running `configure' are: - -(For these variables, any value given in the environment overrides the -value that `configure' would choose:) -CC C compiler program. - Default is `cc', or `gcc' if `gcc' is in your PATH. -INSTALL Program to use to install files. - 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:) -DEFS Configuration options, in the form `-Dfoo -Dbar ...' - Do not use this variable in packages that create a - configuration header file. -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 as a template to create `configure' by -a program called `autoconf'. You will only need it if you want to -regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'. |