GNU Source Installer - README

Welcome!
This is GNU Source Installer, a program that handles configuration,
installation, removal and tracking of source packages.

It is part of the GNU project since 2005-06-08.

1. REQUIREMENTS

This version of GNU Source Installer needs tcl/tk.
If you do not have tcl, you can fetch a source release from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl

In the future, more implementations will be hopefully available.

2. INSTALLATION

    ./configure
    make
    make install

3. STARTING THE PROGRAM

Type:

    sourceinstall

4. DOCUMENTATION

You can find the sourceinstall texinfo manual in this package.
It will be built during 'make'.

If you want alternative formats (ps, dvi, pdf) you can type for example:

    make pdf

To get a pdf version of the manual.

5. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING

This software is Copyright (c) 2005 Claudio Fontana, and is licensed under the
GPL (see file COPYING).

However, m4/tcl.m4 makes an exception and is

Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ajuba Solutions.
Copyright (c) 2002-2005 ActiveState Corporation.

m4/tcl.m4 is distributed under a different license: see m4/license.terms
