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authorAlejandro Piñeiro <apinheiro@igalia.com>2014-09-26 15:59:59 +0200
committerAlejandro Piñeiro <apinheiro@igalia.com>2014-10-28 12:45:23 +0100
commitf036be45e267965245a66d10a94060409c3a827d (patch)
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downloadatk-f036be45e267965245a66d10a94060409c3a827d.tar.gz
Updating README file
Previous one still have references to a wrong glib dependency, CVS, etc
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diff --git a/README b/README
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+++ b/README
@@ -6,38 +6,30 @@ For more information about ATK and accessibility in GNOME, see:
Dependencies
============
-ATK requires GLib-2.0.0 or better. Information about GLib
-is available from http://www.gtk.org/.
+ATK requires GLib >= 2.31.2. Information about GLib is available from
+http://www.gtk.org/.
-Building
-========
-
-To configure ATK, run the ./configure script, then 'make'; and
-'make install'. If you are installing into a location where you don't have
-write permission, you'll have to become root before running
-'make install'.
-
-General information about building ATK and related libraries can
-be found at:
+Getting the source code
+=======================
- http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html
+You can get the source code of each ATK release as a tarball:
+https://download.gnome.org/sources/atk/
-To compile a CVS version of atk on your system, you will need to take
-several steps to setup the tree for compilation. You can do all these
-steps at once by running:
+You can also clone the ATK master branch from GNOME repository:
+https://git.gnome.org/browse/atk
- cvsroot/atk# ./autogen.sh
-
-Basically this does the following for you:
+Building
+========
- cvsroot/atk# aclocal; automake; autoconf
+To buid ATK from a release tarball, the usual is using autotool, as:
- The above commands create the "configure" script. Now you
- can run the configure script in cvsroot/atk to create all
- the Makefiles.
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ # make install
-Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure you have libtool
-in your path.
+To build ATK from a Git clone, run the autogen.sh script instead of
+the configure one. Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure
+you have libtool in your path.
Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you. If you wish to pass
options like --prefix=/usr to configure you can give those options
@@ -46,8 +38,9 @@ to autogen.sh and they will be passed on to configure.
How to report bugs
==================
-Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system.
-(http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product atk.) You will need to create an
-account for yourself.
+Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system:
+ http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=atk
+
+You will need to create an account for yourself.
You can also mail the mailing list gnome-accessibility-devel@gnome.org