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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 038ae762..3be16c1f 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -5,18 +5,34 @@ GiNaC requires the CLN library by Bruno Haible installed on your system.
It is available from .
You will also need a decent ANSI-compliant C++-compiler. We recommend the
-C++ compiler from the GNU compiler collection, GCC >= 3.0. If you have a
+C++ compiler from the GNU compiler collection, GCC >= 3.4. If you have a
different or older compiler you are on your own. Note that you may have to
use the same compiler you compiled CLN with because of differing
name-mangling schemes.
+The pkg-config utility is required for configuration, it can be downloaded
+from .
+
+To build the GiNaC tutorial and reference manual the doxygen utility
+(it can be downloaded from http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen) and
+TeX are necessary.
+
Known to work with:
- - Linux on x86, Alpha and Sparc using GCC 3.0.x, 3.1 and 3.2.
+ - Linux on x86 and x86_64 using GCC 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2.
+ - Linux on Alpha using GCC 3.4.
+ - Solaris on Sparc using GCC 3.4.
+ - Windows on x86 using GCC 3.4 (MinGW)
Known not to work with:
+ - GCC 4.3.0 due to the compiler bug,
+ see .
- GCC 2.96 or earlier because proper exception and standard library support
is missing there.
+If you install from git, you also need GNU autoconf (>=2.59), automake (>=1.8),
+libtool (>= 1.5), bison (>= 2.3), flex (>= 2.5.33), autogen (>= 5.6.0) to be
+installed.
+
INSTALLATION
============
@@ -28,17 +44,6 @@ To install from a source .tar.bz2 distribution:
[become root if necessary]
# make install
-To install from CVS:
-
- $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvsthep.physik.uni-mainz.de:/home/cvs login
- [enter "anoncvs" as the password]
- $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvsthep.physik.uni-mainz.de:/home/cvs co GiNaC
- $ cd GiNaC
- $ ./autogen.sh
- $ 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
@@ -52,9 +57,8 @@ 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:
+The "configure" script can be given a number of options to enable and
+disable various features. For a complete list, type:
$ ./configure --help
@@ -83,25 +87,58 @@ make | ~6m | ~8m | shared and static library
make check | ~8m | ~12m | largely due to compilation
+To install from git
+===================
+
+First, download the code:
+ $ git clone git://www.ginac.de/ginac.git ginac
+ $ cd ginac
+
+Secondly, make sure all required software is installed. This is *really*
+important step. If some package is missing, the `configure' script might
+be misgenerated, see e.g. this discussion:
+
+
+Finally, run
+
+ $ autoreconf -i
+
+to generate the `configure' script, and proceed in a standard way, i.e.
+
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ [become root if necessary]
+ # make install
+
COMMON PROBLEMS
===============
Problems with CLN
-----------------
-You should use at least CLN-1.1, since during the development of GiNaC
+You should use at least CLN-1.2.2, since during the development of GiNaC
various bugs have been discovered and fixed in earlier versions. Please
install CLN properly on your system before continuing with GiNaC.
Problems building ginsh
-----------------------
-The most common reason why this doesn't succeed is the absence of
-libreadline and/or the corresponding header files. Depending on what your
-system/distribution is, you will have to install a package called
-libreadline and maybe libreadline-dev. If your system's vendor doesn't
-supply such packages, go to and compile
-it yourself.
+The GiNaC interactive shell, ginsh, makes use of GNU readline to provide
+command line editing and history. If readline library and/or headers are
+missing on your system, the configure script will issue a warning. In this
+case you have two options:
+
+1) (the easiest) If you don't intend to use ginsh (i.e. if you need GiNaC
+library to compile some piece of software), ignore it. ginsh builds just
+fine without readline (obviously, it won't support the command line history
+and editing).
+
+2) Install GNU readline and run the configure script once again. Depending on
+what your system/distribution is, you will have to install a package called
+libreadline and libreadline-dev (or readline-devel). If your system's vendor
+doesn't supply such packages, go to and
+compile it yourself. Note that non-GNU versions of libreadline (in particular
+one shipped with Mac OS X) are not supported at the moment.
Problems with missing standard header files
-------------------------------------------