Add $Id:$.

Add 'philosophy' note about balance between modern and being ok for
those tracking stable.

question 4.7-4 as a texinfo version (no such nomenclature on texinfo
site - something specific to some Linux distribution?).

Note that NetBSD provides texinfo 4.6 in the base system.

diff --git a/INSTALL.quagga.txt b/INSTALL.quagga.txt
index e79e9dcfb0cde32f47c86413022e4ab1c675a067..ca2dfcaa1399127ecf3ecc742fccb9589cd02cff 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.quagga.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.quagga.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# $Id: INSTALL.quagga.txt,v 1.2 2004/11/15 15:34:50 gdt Exp $
+

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 Building and Installing Quagga:
 
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 Building and Installing Quagga:
 


@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ Building Quagga from CVS checkouts:
 
 In order to build from CVS, you will need recent versions of several GNU
 tools, particularly autoconf, automake, libtool and texinfo. Note that the
 
 In order to build from CVS, you will need recent versions of several GNU
 tools, particularly autoconf, automake, libtool and texinfo. Note that the

-CVS snapshots on the Quagga website do not require these tools, everything
+CVS snapshots on the Quagga website do not require these tools; everything

 is already setup ready to run 'configure', and if you have trouble building
 from CVS checkout it is recommended that you try a CVS snapshot instead.
 
 is already setup ready to run 'configure', and if you have trouble building
 from CVS checkout it is recommended that you try a CVS snapshot instead.
 


@@ -47,4 +49,18 @@ need to run make to create this file.
 
 Please refer to "Building and Installing Quagga" above for further
 instructions.
 
 Please refer to "Building and Installing Quagga" above for further
 instructions.

+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Notes on required versions:
+
+The general goal is to use a modern baseline of tools, while not
+imposing pain on those tracking stable distributions.  The notes below
+explain what versions are present in various environments.
+
+TODO:
+texinfo 4.7-4 is not a version of texinfo, per
+http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/.
+
+NetBSD pkgsrc provides automake 1.9.1 autoconf 2.59 libtool 1.5.6
+NetBSD 1.6.2 and 2.0 provide texinfo 4.6.

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