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@@ -13,13 +13,23 @@ problems.
Please try ./Build for your system and tell me about any failures.
+Make sure to use GNU Make (an Automake generated Makefile is supposed not to
+require GNU Make, but that seems not to be the case).
+
+If /bin/sh on your system can not handle command substitutions such as
+'$(COMMAND)' and XSI constructs such as 'VAR+=VAL', you must set
+CONFIG_SHELL to a shell that does. Due to a bug in current Autoconf this
+should be done both in the environment and on the command line, e.g.,
+ CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash ./Build CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
+(assuming bourne shell syntax).
+
If building a particular subdirectory, e.g., texk/xdvik/ fails, try
TL_CONFIGURE_ARGS='--disable-xdvik' ./Build
-(assuming a bourne compatible shell).
+(again assuming bourne shell syntax).
If there are problems with the cxx-runtime-hack (gcc only), please try adding
'--disable-cxx-runtime-hack' to TL_CONFIGURE_ARGS.
Good luck!
-Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de> 2009-04-24 15:00 UTC
+Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de> 2009-04-28 09:00 UTC