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| author | Luke Shumaker <LukeShu@sbcglobal.net> | 2009-07-13 16:07:25 -0400 |
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| committer | Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@sbcglobal.net> | 2015-06-26 00:30:11 -0600 |
| commit | 1a65ae278e81946ec3a8af43b1f6f18c26e1161a (patch) | |
| tree | b08ab355f44ca036ff4e9743966454d5df1a1e09 /docs/README.xhtml | |
| parent | 1f75a1dff61a33dea973ebeea64a3bd8bccb715a (diff) | |
rvs-0.6.1 -- make it possible to compile from another directory
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diff --git a/docs/README.xhtml b/docs/README.xhtml index ded2de0..e74e2b8 100644 --- a/docs/README.xhtml +++ b/docs/README.xhtml @@ -89,12 +89,12 @@ <li>one can use any lanugage to write new modules, without having to worry about bindings</li> </ol> <h3>build system</h3> -<p>The build system rvs uses is rather simple. <kbd>./configure</kbd> does 2 things, create a preprocessor in <kbd>tmp/var.sed</kbd>, and generate a <kbd>Makefile</kbd> with this preprocessor from <a href="../Makefile.orig"><kbd>Makefile.orig</kbd></a>. Then, the <kbd>Makefile</kbd> (among other things), runs each source file through the preprocessor.</p> +<p>The build system rvs uses is rather simple. <kbd>./configure</kbd> does 2 things, create a preprocessor in <kbd>tmp/var.sed</kbd>, and generate a <kbd>Makefile</kbd> with this preprocessor from <a href="../Makefile.orig"><kbd>Makefile.orig</kbd></a>. Then, the <kbd>Makefile</kbd> (among other things), runs each source file through the preprocessor.</p> <h4>preprocessor/variables</h4> -<p>You know the configuration variables described in <a href="../README"><kbd>README</kbd></a>? Part of the build process involves running all source files through a pre-processor (kept in <kbd>tmp/var.sed</kbd>). This preproccessor allows you to reference the configuration variables in any file in <kbd>source/</kbd> or <a href="../Makefile"><kbd>Makefile</kbd></a>. Any instance of <samp>$$VAR_NAME$$</samp> will be repleced by the value of the variable.</p> +<p>You know the configuration variables described in <a href="../README"><kbd>README</kbd></a>? Part of the build process involves running all source files through a pre-processor (kept in <kbd>tmp/var.sed</kbd>). This preproccessor allows you to reference the configuration variables in any file in <kbd>source/</kbd> or <a href="../Makefile"><kbd>Makefile</kbd></a>. Any instance of <samp>$$VAR_NAME$$</samp> will be repleced by the value of the variable. Note that only defined variables will be replaced.</p> <h3>known bugs</h3> <ul> - <li>borks on files with the newline character. The smart thing to do would be to escape all speacial characters. + <li>borks on files with the newline character. The smart thing to do would be to escape all speacial characters. <br />Files to be changed:<ul> <li><kbd>soruce/rvs-core/commit</kbd></li> <li><kbd>soruce/rvs-core/commit.d</kbd></li> |