GNU Source Installer - README

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

This program is part of the GNU project.

1. REQUIREMENTS

This version of GNU Source Installer needs tcl, Tk and Expect.
Alternatively, the all-in-one expectk interpreter can be used.

Tcl and Tk can be obtained from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/

expectk is included in the expect package available at
http://expect.nist.gov/

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 has been slightly modified to work with GNU Source Installer.
m4/tcl.m4 is distributed under a different license: see m4/license.terms
