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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2004-09-06 14:28:55 +0000
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2004-09-06 14:28:55 +0000
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Started merging with cpio into paxutils.
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@@ -24,25 +24,33 @@ Before building the package, run "bootstrap". It obtains various
additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
site and prepares the source directory for building.
-When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib files
-from CVS repository on savannah using anonymous SSH access. Then, it
-will fetch the po files from tar page at Translation Project, and,
-finally, it will start autoconfiguration process. Simply running
-it without arguments should do in most cases. Several options
-allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
-
+When run without arguments, bootstrap will try to obtain gnulib and
+paxutils files from their corresponding CVS repositories on Savannah
+using anonymous SSH access. Then, it will fetch the po files from tar
+page at Translation Project, and, finally, it will start autoconfiguration
+process. Simply running it without arguments should do in most cases.
+Several options allow to control the behavior of bootstrap:
--gnulib-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where gnulib
sources reside. Use this if you already
have gnulib sources on your machine, and
do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
them again.
+
+ --paxutils-srcdir=DIRNAME Specify the local directory where paxutils
+ sources reside. Use this if you already
+ have paxutils sources on your machine, and
+ do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
+ them again.
+
--cvs-auth=METHOD Set the CVS access method used for downloading
gnulib files. METHOD is one of the keywords
accepted by cvs -d option (see info cvs
repository).
+
--cvs-user=USERNAME Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
the gnulib repository.
+
--no-po Do not download po files.
Notice also that when using CVS authentication method "ext", bootstrap