Move generation of the "configure" script into its own script so that

[u/mdw/putty] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index fb627ca..991164e 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,47 +2,54 @@ This is the README for the source archive of PuTTY, a free Win32
 and Unix Telnet and SSH client.
 
 If you want to rebuild PuTTY from source, we provide a variety of
-Makefiles and equivalents. (If you have fetched the source from CVS,
-you'll have to generate the Makefiles yourself -- see below.)
+Makefiles and equivalents. (If you have fetched the source from
+Subversion, you'll have to generate the Makefiles yourself -- see
+below.)
 
 For building on Windows:
 
- - Makefile.vc is for command-line builds on MS Visual C++ systems.
-   Type `nmake -f Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
+ - windows/Makefile.vc is for command-line builds on MS Visual C++
+   systems. Change into the `windows' subdirectory and type `nmake
+   -f Makefile.vc' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
 
    (We've also had one report of success building with the
    OpenWatcom compiler -- www.openwatcom.org -- using Makefile.vc
    with `wmake -ms -f makefile.vc' and NO_MULTIMON, although we
    haven't tried this ourselves.)
 
- - Inside the MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project files
-   for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities. These
-   have been tested on Visual Studio 6.
+ - Inside the windows/MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project
+   files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities.
+   These have been tested on Visual Studio 6.
 
    You should be able to build each PuTTY utility by loading the
    corresponding .dsp file in Visual Studio. For example,
    MSVC/putty/putty.dsp builds PuTTY itself, MSVC/plink/plink.dsp
    builds Plink, and so on.
 
- - Makefile.bor is for the Borland C compiler. Type `make -f
-   Makefile.bor' to build all the PuTTY binaries.
+ - windows/Makefile.bor is for the Borland C compiler. Type `make -f
+   Makefile.bor' while in the `windows' subdirectory to build all
+   the PuTTY binaries.
 
- - Makefile.cyg is for Cygwin / mingw32 installations. Type `make -f
-   Makefile.cyg' to build all the PuTTY binaries. Note that by
-   default the Pageant WinNT security features and the multiple
-   monitor support are excluded from the Cygwin build, since at the
+ - windows/Makefile.cyg is for Cygwin / mingw32 installations. Type
+   `make -f Makefile.cyg' while in the `windows' subdirectory to
+   build all the PuTTY binaries. Note that by default the multiple
+   monitor support is excluded from the Cygwin build, since at the
    time of writing Cygwin doesn't include the necessary headers.
 
- - Makefile.lcc is for lcc-win32. Type `make -f Makefile.lcc'. (You
-   will probably need to specify COMPAT=-DNO_MULTIMON.)
+ - windows/Makefile.lcc is for lcc-win32. Type `make -f
+   Makefile.lcc' while in the `windows' subdirectory. (You will
+   probably need to specify COMPAT=-DNO_MULTIMON.)
 
 For building on Unix:
 
- - unix/Makefile.gtk is for Unix and GTK. If you don't have GTK, you
+ - unix/configure is for Unix and GTK. If you don't have GTK, you
    should still be able to build the command-line utilities (PSCP,
-   PSFTP, Plink, PuTTYgen) using this makefile. The makefile expects
-   you to change into the `unix' subdirectory, then run `make -f
-   Makefile.gtk'. Note that Unix PuTTY has mostly only been tested
+   PSFTP, Plink, PuTTYgen) using this script. To use it, change
+   into the `unix' subdirectory, run `./configure' and then `make'.
+ 
+ - unix/Makefile.gtk is for non-autoconfigured builds. This makefile
+   expects you to change into the `unix' subdirectory, then run `make
+   -f Makefile.gtk'. Note that Unix PuTTY has mostly only been tested
    on Linux so far; portability problems such as BSD-style ptys or
    different header file requirements are expected.
 
@@ -56,7 +63,9 @@ For building on Unix:
 All of the Makefiles are generated automatically from the file
 `Recipe' by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl'. Additions and corrections
 to Recipe and the mkfiles.pl are much more useful than additions and
-corrections to the alternative Makefiles themselves.
+corrections to the alternative Makefiles themselves. The Unix `configure'
+script and its various requirements are generated by the shell script
+`mkauto.sh', which requires GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake, and Gtk.
 
 Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix
 `man' pages) is to be built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the