This text is copied from the TeXinfo manual for pcl-cvs. Installation of the pcl-cvs program =================================== 1. Possibly edit the file `Makefile' to reflect the situation at your site. We say "possibly" because the version of pcl-cvs included with CVS uses a configuration mechanism integrated with the overall mechanisms used by the CVS build and install procedures. Thus the file `Makefile' will be generated automatically from the file `Makefile.in', and it should not be necessary to edit it further. If you do have to edit the `Makefile', the only things you have to change is the definition of `lispdir' and `infodir'. The elisp files will be copied to `lispdir', and the info file(s) to `infodir'. 2. Configure pcl-cvs.el There are a couple of pathnames that you have to check to make sure that they match your system. They appear early in the file `pcl-cvs.el'. *NOTE:* If your system is running emacs 18.57 or earlier you MUST uncomment the line that says: (setq delete-exited-processes nil) Setting `delete-exited-processes' to `nil' works around a bug in emacs that causes it to dump core. The bug was fixed in emacs 18.58. 3. Release 1.05 and later of pcl-cvs requires parts of the Elib library, version 1.0 or later. Elib is available via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu in `pub/gnu/elib-1.0.tar.gz', and from a lot of other sites that mirror prep. Get Elib, and install it, before proceeding. *NOTE:* The version of pcl-cvs included with CVS includes a copy of Elib in the sub-directory `elib' under the `contrib/elib' directory. 4. Type `make install' in the source directory. This will byte-compile all `.el' files and copy the `*.elc' files into the directory you specified in step 1. If you want to install the `*.el' files too, you can type `make install-el' to do so. If you only want to create the compiled elisp files, but don't want to install them, you can type `make' without parameters. 5. Edit the file `default.el' in your emacs lisp directory (usually `/usr/gnu/lib/emacs/site-lisp' or something similar) and enter the contents of the file `pcl-cvs-startup.el' into it. It contains a couple of `auto-load's that facilitates the use of pcl-cvs. Installation of the on-line manual. =================================== 1. Create the info file(s) `pcl-cvs.info*' from `pcl-cvs.texinfo' by typing `make info'. If you don't have the program `makeinfo' you can get it by anonymous ftp from e.g. `prep.ai.mit.edu' as `pub/gnu/texinfo-3.7.tar.gz' (there might be a newer version there when you read this). 2. Install the info file(s) `pcl-cvs.info*' into your standard `info' directory. You should be able to do this by typing `make install-info'. 3. Edit the file `dir' in the `info' directory and enter one line to contain a pointer to the info file(s) `pcl-cvs.info*'. The line can, for instance, look like this: * Pcl-cvs: (pcl-cvs). An Emacs front-end to CVS. How to make typeset documentation from pcl-cvs.texinfo ====================================================== If you have TeX installed at your site, you can make a typeset manual from `pcl-cvs.texinfo'. 1. Run TeX by typing ``make pcl-cvs.dvi''. You will not get the indices unless you have the `texindex' program. 2. Convert the resulting device independent file `pcl-cvs.dvi' to a form which your printer can output and print it. If you have a postscript printer there is a program, `dvi2ps', which does. There is also a program which comes together with TeX, `dvips', which you can use. -- #ident "@(#)cvs/contrib/pcl-cvs:$Name: $Id$"