added required software and Guido Neitzer's Mac OS X build instructions

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/CVS-INFO b/CVS-INFO
index 5bb7c88c2..1033e8df3 100644
--- a/CVS-INFO
+++ b/CVS-INFO
@@ -10,14 +10,10 @@ This file is only present in the CVS - never in release archives. It contains
 information about other files and things that the CVS repository keeps in its
 inner sanctum.
 
-Use autoconf 2.50 and no earlier. Also, try having automake 1.5 and libtool
-1.4.1 at least.
-
-You will need perl to generate the src/hugehelp.c file. The file
-src/hugehelp.c.cvs is a one-shot file that you can rename to src/hugehelp.c if
-you really can't generate the true file yourself!
+Compile and build instructions follow below.
 
   CHANGES.0     contains ancient changes.
+  CHANGES.$year contains changes for the particular year.
 
   memanalyze.pl is for analyzing the output generated by curl if -DMALLOCDEBUG
                 is used when compiling
@@ -26,12 +22,38 @@ you really can't generate the true file yourself!
 
   Makefile.dist is included as the root Makefile in distribution archives
 
-  perl/contrib/ is a subdirectory with various perl scripts
-
-  java/         is a subdirectory with the Java interface to libcurl
+  perl/         is a subdirectory with various perl scripts
 
 To build after having extracted everything from CVS, do this:
 
 ./buildconf
 ./configure
 make
+
+REQUIREMENTS
+
+ You need the following software installed:
+
+ o autoconf 2.50 (or later)
+ o automake 1.5 (or later)
+ o libtool  1.4 (or later)
+ o GNU m4 (required by autoconf)
+
+ o nroff + perl (if you don't have nroff and perl and you for some reason
+   don't want to install them, you can rename the source file
+   src/hugehelp.c.cvs to src/hugehelp.c and avoid having to generate this
+   file. This will of course give you an older version of the file that isn't
+   up-to-date. That file was checked in once and won't be updated very
+   regularly.)
+
+MAC OS X
+
+ For Mac OS X users, Guido Neitzer write down the following step-by-step guide:
+
+ 1. Install fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net)
+ 2. Update fink to the newest version (with the installed fink)
+ 3. Install the latest version of autoconf, automake and m4 with fink
+ 4. Install version 1.4.1 of libtool - you find it in the "unstable" section
+    (read the manual to see how to get unstable versions)
+ 5. Get cURL from the cvs
+ 6. Build cURL with "./buildconf", "./configure", "make", "sudo make install"