Re: Building inetutils from 2000-11-07 CVS

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 04:10:42PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 11:48:55PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> > You can run ./autogen.sh, which does all necessary steps. The real
> > distribution will of course come with a configure script.
> > 
> > All other problems you report are actually due to the fact that you didn't
> > complete all steps in autogen.sh. Try to run it on a fresh copy of the
> > checkout and try again.
> 
> I've been trying to think of a way to get rid of this FAQ, but I can't 
> think of a good one.  Do you think it would be worth making a hack so 
> that if a .cvsreadme exists, it's spit out to the screen using some 
> available pager?  (Does anyone know if CVS is even still under development?)

What about old-fashioned explanations in README-alpha or so?

Marcus

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