From 86cafb4524f1d35c39d6d6127146f46a8bb80cf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Nevins Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:09:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Talk about Halibut; mention Unix `install' target; mention lack of Makefiles if you check out directly from CVS as it's come up once or twice. [originally from svn r4370] --- README | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 7ffb0977..d38910a5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ This is the README for the source archive of PuTTY, a free Win32 Telnet and SSH client. If you want to rebuild PuTTY from source, we provide a variety of -Makefiles and equivalents. +Makefiles and equivalents. (If you have fetched the source from CVS, +you'll have to generate the Makefiles yourself -- see below.) For building on Windows: @@ -46,11 +47,20 @@ For building on Unix: on Linux so far; portability problems such as BSD-style ptys or different header file requirements are expected. + There is an `install' target; note that by default it tries to + install `man' pages, which need to be built using Halibut first -- + see below. + All of the Makefiles are generated automatically from the file `Recipe' by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl'. Additions and corrections to Recipe and the mkfiles.pl are much more useful than additions and corrections to the alternative Makefiles themselves. +Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix +`man' pages) is to be built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the +`doc' subdirectory using `doc/Makefile'. Halibut can be found at +. + The PuTTY home web site is http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/