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authorPeter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>2012-05-04 06:55:50 +0000
committerPeter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>2012-05-04 06:55:50 +0000
commit0c1d2586a0c113709ab7ea4214a641aa9a4b4785 (patch)
treecf91d207588fe946cd81e46d4aeb49465148476e /Build/source/README
parent023194913e9a09decd34ad0e45a2f9804e76d270 (diff)
top-level README: Update the list of prerequisites
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@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Prerequisites:
- GNU clisp and GNU libffcall, for xindy. See more
details in utils/README. (Alternative: Build --disable-xindy.)
+ Perl, latex, and pdflatex to build the rules and/or documentation.
+
+- Perl to autodetect the TeX Live platform name for biber.
+
- X11 headers and libraries (often a ``development'' package, not
installed by default), for pdfopen and xdvi.
(Alternative: Build --without-x.)
@@ -28,7 +32,7 @@ Prerequisites:
- If you modify any .y or .l source files, then Bison and Flex (or maybe
equivalents) are needed. The distributed .c and .h files are generated
- with bison-2.4.3 and flex-2.5.35.
+ with bison-2.5 and flex-2.5.35.
The binaries will be left in ./inst/bin/<stdplatform>.
For TeX Live, ignore the other files and directories that end up in ./inst.