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author | Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> | 1999-07-26 10:13:11 +0000 |
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committer | Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> | 1999-07-26 10:13:11 +0000 |
commit | 728abbcd7ecf14efe54144270537120d8ef8e826 (patch) | |
tree | d0ecd91e4e8379d6b8df8f3a54ec8c80650c787c /doc | |
parent | d9d0a49fff41caa8b60738f2a698d1a2a06e29ee (diff) |
Add some notes. From Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>.
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/devel-notes.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/devel-notes.txt b/doc/devel-notes.txt index eca3c093..3f650817 100644 --- a/doc/devel-notes.txt +++ b/doc/devel-notes.txt @@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ You'll need several GNU development utilities for working on mutt: - GNU make may be needed for the dependency tricks +Getting started from CVS +------------------------ + +Once you've checked out a copy of the source from CVS, you'll need to +run the script called 'prepare' that is in the root directory. The +script does all the automake/autoconf magic that needs to be done with +a fresh checkout. + A word about warnings --------------------- @@ -65,16 +73,10 @@ Mutt's default build process sets some pretty restrictive compiler flags which may lead to lots of warnings. Generally, warnings are something which should be eliminated. -Nevertheless, there are two kinds of warnings about which you -shouldn't complain to us: _Every_ module in the mutt source code -will generate an "xxx.c:1: warning: `rcsid' defined but not used" -warning. This is ok, as we define rcsid for reference purposes -only. - -Second, the code in intl/ is said to generate some warnings with the -compiler settings we usually rely upon. This code is not maintained -by the mutt developpers, so please redirect any comments to the GNU -gettext library's developpers. +Nevertheless, the code in intl/ is said to generate some warnings with +the compiler settings we usually rely upon. This code is not +maintained by the mutt developpers, so please redirect any comments to +the GNU gettext library's developpers. Style Guide |