Installation procedures for `send-pr' If you receive `send-pr' as part of a larger software distribution, it will be automatically installed when the full distribution is installed. The `send-pr' directory, however, is easily installed by itself by following these steps: 1. Unpack the distribution into a directory which we will refer to as SRCDIR. 2. Edit the `Makefile' to reflect local conventions. Specifically, you should edit the variable "prefix" to alter the installation location. The default is '/usr/local'. All files are installed under "prefix" (see below). 3. Run make all install [ info ] install-info [ clean ] from the "build directory". The targets mean the following: all Builds `send-pr' and `install-sid' install Installs the following: send-pr into PREFIX/bin install-sid into PREFIX/bin send-pr.1 into PREFIX/man/man1 categories as PREFIX/lib/gnats/SITE send-pr-el.in as PREFIX/lib/emacs/lisp/send-pr.el info (optional) Builds "send-pr.info" from "send-pr.texi" (send-pr.info is included with this distribution) install-info Installs "send-pr.info" into PREFIX/info clean (optional) Removes all intermediary build files that can be rebuilt from source code 4. Run install-sid SID where SID is the submitter identification code you received with `send-pr'. If you've downloaded `send-pr' from the Net, use "net" for this value. 5. Any users who wish to use the Emacs version of `send-pr' must place the following line in their ".emacs" files: (autoload 'send-pr "send-pr" "Submit a Problem Report." t) 6. Create a mail alias for the support site you received `send-pr' from, and for every site with which you wish to use `send-pr' to communicate with, each with a suffix of `-gnats'. The support site(s) will provide the correct addresses toward which these aliases should point. For instance, edit your mail aliases file to contain something like: # support sites; for use with send-pr cygnus-gnats: bugs@cygnus.com # Cygnus Support bumblebee-gnats: bumblebugs@bumblebee.com # Bumblebee BASIC, Inc. mycompany-gnats: bugs@my.company.com (if you use GNATS locally) `send-pr' automatically searches for these aliases when you type send-pr cygnus send-pr bumblebee send-pr SITE... `send-pr' also uses SITE to determine the categories of bugs the site in question accepts by looking in PREFIX/lib/gnats/SITE 7. That's it! See "send-pr.info", "send-pr.texi", and/or "send-pr.1" for information on using `send-pr'. Copyright (c) 1993, Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the file COPYING for copyright information concerning this distribution and all its components.