X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.cares;h=aca54c8cd1fc77e7259609bb0a2c75ed8414c75b;hb=d82f8426a5e255f0533f07ee458870ba124f90e7;hp=98643b79db292938cc4bf94712e1b8cfed123fe4;hpb=483c51445866293d49eedb454a9a9ca9479e41e2;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fc-ares.git diff --git a/README.cares b/README.cares index 98643b7..aca54c8 100644 --- a/README.cares +++ b/README.cares @@ -10,54 +10,4 @@ within the curl project (hence the letter C) and it makes a nice pun. Also, c-ares is not API compatible with ares: a new name makes that more obvious to the public. -The full source code is available in the 'c-ares' release archives, and in the -'ares' subdir of the curl CVS source repository. - -If you find bugs, correct flaws, have questions or have comments in general in -regard to c-ares (or by all means the original ares too), get in touch with us -on the c-ares mailing list: http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/c-ares - -c-ares is of course distributed under the same MIT-style license as the -original ares. - -You'll find all c-ares details and news here: - - http://c-ares.haxx.se/ - - -NOTES FOR C-ARES HACKERS - -The following notes apply to c-ares version 7.6.1 and later. - -* The distributed ares_build.h file is only intended to be used on systems - which can not run the also distributed configure script. - -* The distributed ares_build.h file is generated as a copy of ares_build.h.dist - when the c-ares source code distribution archive file is originally created. - -* If you check out from CVS on a non-configure platform, you must run the - appropriate buildconf* script to set up ares_build.h and other local files - before being able of compiling the library. - -* On systems capable of running the configure script, the configure process - will overwrite the distributed ares_build.h file with one that is suitable - and specific to the library being configured and built, this new file is - generated from the ares_build.h.in template file. - -* If you intend to distribute an already compiled c-ares library you _MUST_ - also distribute along with it the generated ares_build.h which has been - used to compile it. Otherwise the library will be of no use for the users of - the library that you have built. It is _your_ responsability to provide this - file. No one at the c-ares project can know how you have built the library. - -* File ares_build.h includes platform and configuration dependant info, - and must not be modified by anyone. Configure script generates it for you. - -* We cannot assume anything else but very basic compiler features being - present. While libcurl requires an ANSI C compiler to build, some of the - earlier ANSI compilers clearly can't deal with some preprocessor operators. - -* Newlines must remain unix-style for older compilers' sake. - -* Comments must be written in the old-style /* unnested C-fashion */ - +The original libares was distributed at athena-dist.mit.edu:pub/ATHENA/ares.