remove old autoconf notes, peb has vastly better ones.

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@8458 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 86 deletions

diff --git a/Build/source/README b/Build/source/README
index 0e8df235e9f..55875225222 100644
--- a/Build/source/README
+++ b/Build/source/README
@@ -77,34 +77,19 @@ Build information:
   powerpc-darwin: powerpc-apple-darwin6.8 built by Gerben Wierda, from
     http://bloch.ling.yale.edu/i-packages/experimental/tex.ii2/tex.26.tar.bz2
 
-  x86_64-linux: built by Tigran Aivazian, from
-    http://www.bibles.org.uk/x86_64
-# uname -a
-Linux elpis 2.6.8.1 #18 SMP Fri Mar 25 19:46:16 GMT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 G$
-# gcc -v
-Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.3.3/specs
-Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
---infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
---disable-checking --disable-libunwind-exceptions --with-system-zlib
---enable-__cxa_atexit --host=x86_64-redhat-linux
-Thread model: posix
-gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)
-
-  These three built and checked in by Vladimir Volovich:
-1) sparc-solaris
+  sparc-solaris
 OS: Sun Solaris 8
 compiler: Sun Studio 11
 bison (GNU Bison) 2.3
 flex version 2.5.4
 GNU m4 1.4.5
 GNU Make 3.81
-
   xe(la)tex and xdvipdfmx depend on fontconfig.
   Because Solaris 8 does not include fontconfig, we used fontconfig
   package (version 2.3.2) from http://www.blastwave.org/
   (together with it's dependencies)
 
-2) sparc-linux
+  sparc-linux
 OS: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge), kernel 2.4.27-2-sparc64
 gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
 bison (GNU Bison) 1.875d
@@ -112,82 +97,14 @@ flex 2.5.31
 GNU m4 1.4.2
 GNU Make 3.80
 
-3) powerpc-aix
+  powerpc-aix
 OS: AIX 4.3
 compiler: IBM C for AIX Compiler, Version 5 (xlc)
 bison (GNU Bison) 1.34
 flex version 2.5.4
 GNU m4 1.4
 GNU Make 3.79.1
-
   xe(la)tex and xdvipdfmx depend on fontconfig.
   You can download fontconfig for AIX from
   http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html
   ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/fontconfig/
-
-
-- TeX Live includes many programs, which depend on many libraries, notably
-  the TeX file-searching library kpathsea.
- 
-- TL has thousands of users, and they almost all install binaries,
-  rather than compile from source.
-
-- Of course kpathsea is itself part of TeX Live, and we need to use the
-  version that is included here, not whatever is randomly installed on
-  the build system or the end-user's system.
-
-- So a program that TL includes, such as lcdf-typetools
-  (http://www.lcdf.org/type/), has a configure option
-  --enable-tetex-build, which sets up CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to use the
-  local kpathsea in the build tree, like this:
-
-if test "x$enable_tetex_build" = xyes; then
-...
- CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I\$(top_builddir)/../../texk -I\$(top_srcdir)/../../texk"
- LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L\$(top_builddir)/../../texk/kpathsea/.libs"
-
-
-- The exact paths there aren't important reflect the structure
-  of our source hierarchy, relative to top_builddir/srcddir.
-
-- The quoting there makes the values in the Makefile use Make variables:
-CPPFLAGS =  -I$(top_builddir)/../../texk -I$(top_srcdir)/../../texk
-
-- However, since "$(top_builddir)" is used as a literal string, of
-  course that's not going to be found in the -I list, so any further
-  configure tests that need those values are going to fail.  For example:
-AC_CHECK_DECLS(kpse_opentype_format, :, :, [#include <kpathsea/kpathsea.h>])
-
-- To get around this, we've simply been hardwiring the test results of
-  when --enable-tetex-build is given.  So the test above becomes:
-    if test "x$enable_tetex_build" = xyes; then
-      AC_DEFINE(HAVE_DECL_KPSE_OPENTYPE_FORMAT)
-    else
-      AC_CHECK_DECLS(kpse_opentype_format, :, :, [#include <kpathsea/kpathsea.h>])
-    fi
-
-- None of this is actually specific to kpathsea, there are tons of other
-  libraries involved.  It's just easier to discuss a specific example.
-
-So I asked autoconf@gnu.org:
-I am wondering if there's a reasonable way to use the top_builddir and
-top_srcdir values at configure time.  As in:
-CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$top_builddir/whatever"
-
-When simply used as above, the value is not defined.  It seems that the
-value for these variables only gets defined at the end, for output (or
-for recursive --help's).
-
-I guess I could simply duplicate the code which computes them, but of
-course that is not very appealing.  Is there a better way?
-
-
-Andreas Schwab replied:
-At configure time $top_builddir == "." and $top_srcdir == $srcdir.  They
-are only different in sub-makefiles.
-
-So maybe it would not be so hard.  Bob Frisenhahn mentioned:
-# Get full paths to source and build directories
-srcdirfull=`cd $srcdir && pwd`
-builddir=`pwd`
-