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diff --git a/README.template b/README.template index a8ea5a8..1822174 100644 --- a/README.template +++ b/README.template @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ This directory contains the %VERSION% release of GNU Make. See the file NEWS for the user-visible changes from previous releases. In addition, there have been bugs fixed. +Please check the system-specific notes below for any caveats related to +your operating system. + For general building and installation instructions, see the file INSTALL. If you need to build GNU Make and have no other `make' program to use, @@ -27,9 +30,9 @@ site. There is information there about ordering hardcopy documentation. You can also find the latest versions of GNU Make from there. -Please send GNU make bug reports to bug-make@gnu.org. Please see the -section of the manual entitles `Problems and Bugs' for information on -submitting bug reports. +You can send GNU make bug reports to bug-make@gnu.org. Please see the +section of the GNU make manual entitled `Problems and Bugs' for +information on submitting useful and complete bug reports. If you need help using GNU make, try these forums: @@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ Also: - See README.customs for details on integrating GNU make with the Customs distributed build environment from the Pmake distribution. - - See README.W32 for details about GNU Make on Windows NT or 95. + - See README.W32 for details about GNU Make on Windows NT, 95, or 98. - See README.Amiga for details about GNU Make on AmigaDOS. @@ -54,6 +57,13 @@ Also: of DJGPP; see the WWW page http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ for more information. + +GNU Make is free software. See the file COPYING for copying conditions. + + +System-specific Notes +--------------------- + It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such that if you compile make with `cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work correctly. It is said that using `cc' without `-O' does work. @@ -64,5 +74,9 @@ debug this code, you can do `make check-loadavg' to see if it works properly on your system. (You must run `configure' beforehand, but you need not build Make itself to run this test.) - -GNU Make is free software. See the file COPYING for copying conditions. +Another potential source of porting problems is the configure support +enabling GNU make to access large files (LFS) on those operating systems +that support them. Please report any bugs that you find in this area. +If you run into difficulties, then as a workaround you should be able to +disable LFS by adding the `--disable-largefile' option to the +`configure' script. |