+Known not to work with:
+ - GCC 2.96 or earlier because proper exception and standard library support
+ is missing there.
+
+If you install from CVS, you also need GNU autoconf (>=2.59) and
+automake (>=1.7) to be installed.
+
+
+INSTALLATION
+============
+
+To install from a source .tar.bz2 distribution:
+
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ [become root if necessary]
+ # make install
+
+To install from CVS:
+
+ $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.ginac.de:/home/cvs/GiNaC login
+ [enter "anoncvs" as the password]
+ $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.ginac.de:/home/cvs/GiNaC co GiNaC
+ $ cd GiNaC
+ $ autoreconf -i
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ [become root if necessary]
+ # make install
+
+To build the GiNaC tutorial and reference manual in HTML, DVI, PostScript,
+or PDF formats, use one of
+
+ $ make html
+ $ make dvi
+ $ make ps
+ $ make pdf
+
+To compile and run GiNaC's test and benchmark suite and check whether the
+library works correctly you can use
+
+ $ make check
+
+The "configure" script (and "autogen.sh", which invokes "configure") can be
+given a number of options to enable and disable various features. For a
+complete list, type:
+
+ $ ./configure --help
+
+A few of the more important ones:
+
+ --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
+ [defaults to /usr/local]
+ --exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
+ [defaults to the value given to --prefix]
+ --disable-shared suppress the creation of a shared version of libginac
+ --disable-static suppress the creation of a static version of libginac