X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=d38910a592c5b6f197eb40b4b47ec9b0ae8c8a53;hb=0047bbe70fc4d0df7b5f0057971071c348aff018;hp=7ffb09779949294ee896b3b7a4604cdfda4e829a;hpb=ad889c93d2031f00c653368c049d707bd4ea700c;p=PuTTY.git diff --git a/README b/README index 7ffb0977..d38910a5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ This is the README for the source archive of PuTTY, a free Win32 Telnet and SSH client. If you want to rebuild PuTTY from source, we provide a variety of -Makefiles and equivalents. +Makefiles and equivalents. (If you have fetched the source from CVS, +you'll have to generate the Makefiles yourself -- see below.) For building on Windows: @@ -46,11 +47,20 @@ For building on Unix: on Linux so far; portability problems such as BSD-style ptys or different header file requirements are expected. + There is an `install' target; note that by default it tries to + install `man' pages, which need to be built using Halibut first -- + see below. + All of the Makefiles are generated automatically from the file `Recipe' by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl'. Additions and corrections to Recipe and the mkfiles.pl are much more useful than additions and corrections to the alternative Makefiles themselves. +Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix +`man' pages) is to be built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the +`doc' subdirectory using `doc/Makefile'. Halibut can be found at +. + The PuTTY home web site is http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/