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authorWerner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>2021-01-16 07:53:09 +0100
committerWerner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>2021-01-16 07:53:09 +0100
commit89184195b4aead0174bdf84a2ce8112687db2e75 (patch)
tree40fb4c348753b776cc1b50ae38100571dc3cfc72 /README.git
parent268bdd7764e6ab4029fe7f8bc35626294d791c6d (diff)
downloadfreetype2-89184195b4aead0174bdf84a2ce8112687db2e75.tar.gz
README, README.git: First updates due to freedesktop.org migration.
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@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+README.git
+----------
+
The git archive doesn't contain pre-built configuration scripts for
UNIXish platforms. To generate them say
@@ -10,34 +13,32 @@ which in turn depends on the following packages:
autoconf (2.62)
The versions given in parentheses are known to work. Newer versions
-should work too, of course. Note that autogen.sh also sets up proper
-file permissions for the `configure' and auxiliary scripts.
+should work too, of course. Note that `autogen.sh` also sets up
+proper file permissions for the `configure` and auxiliary scripts.
-The autogen.sh script now checks the version of above three packages
-whether they match the numbers above. Otherwise it will complain and
-suggest either upgrading or using an environment variable to point to
-a more recent version of the required tool(s).
+The `autogen.sh` script now checks the versions of the above three
+packages whether they match the numbers above. Otherwise it will
+complain and suggest either upgrading or using an environment variable
+to point to a more recent version of the required tool(s).
-Note that `aclocal' is provided by the `automake' package on Linux,
-and that `libtoolize' is called `glibtoolize' on Darwin (OS X).
+Note that `aclocal` is provided by the 'automake' package on Linux,
+and that `libtoolize` is called `glibtoolize` on Darwin (OS X).
-For static builds which don't use platform specific optimizations, no
+For static builds that don't use platform-specific optimizations, no
configure script is necessary at all; saying
make setup ansi
make
-should work on all platforms which have GNU make (or makepp).
-
-
-Similarly, a build with `cmake' can be done directly from the git
-repository.
+should work on all platforms that have GNU `make` (or `makepp`).
+Similarly, a build with `cmake` or `meson` can be done directly from
+the git repository.
-For using the `FT_DEBUG_LOGGING' macro while debugging (see
-`docs/DEBUG' for more information) use the following git commands to
-checkout `dlg' library as a git submodule.
+For using the `FT_DEBUG_LOGGING` macro while debugging (see file
+`docs/DEBUG` for more information) the following git commands are
+necessary to check out the 'dlg' library as a git submodule.
git submodule init
git submodule update