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@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +***** BUILDING: + +This program's build procedure is fairly standard. Try: + + ./configure + make + make install + +Options to the configure script are up to you. For details, run: + + ./configure --help + +Please report build problems at: + + http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=addbug&group_id=4664 + +(yes, even non-Linux problems). + + +***** TIPS AND PROBLEMS: + +- Try to use flex as the lexical analyzer. The lex scanner is now +separated from the flex version to allow the flex scanner to be +optimized. It's also a lot harder to diagnose and debug problems +without having full access to the particular platform and its version of +lex being used. flex is available everywhere --- AT&T lex is not. + +- On Solaris, the native lex fails to catch our redefinition of YYLMAX +early enough, which leads to possible buffer overflows. + +- On Linux systems (and possibly others) configure may fail if lex is + a synomyn for flex. To fix, do the following: + + make distclean + ./configure --with-flex + make + +- On HP-UX several problems exist when using configure. Try the following + to solve this: + + CFLAGS='-Ae -DYYCHAR_ARRAY' CURSES_LIBS=-lHcurses ./configure + +- On Tru64, formerly known as Digital Unix, formerly known as DEC OSF/1, + the system-supplied libcurses causes cscope to terminate itself + immediately as it comes back to foreground after being suspended by + the user (Ctrl-Z). Using GNU Ncurses instead of OSF1 curses works + around the problem. According to the lynx and ncurses people, this + is a design problem of curses vs. signal handling, at the heart of it. + +- Solaris 2.8 on Intel hardware may not work using the vendor's curses + implementation. Using the free NCurses should help. + +- Some ancient Unix filesytems supported only 14 characters in + filenames. cscope no longer cares for that by default. If you want + to run it on such a system, #define the macro SHORT_NAMES_ONLY manually + (there's a definition in global.h you can uncomment). + +Browse to http://cscope.sourceforge.net for more current information, +like reported bugs whose solutions haven't been put into this source +distribution yet. |