_ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| GIT-INFO This file is only present in git - never in release archives. It contains information about other files and things that the git repository keeps in its inner sanctum. Compile and build instructions follow below. CHANGES.0 contains ancient changes CHANGES contains the most recent changes Makefile.dist is included as the root Makefile in distribution archives perl/ is a subdirectory with various perl scripts To build in environments that support configure, after having extracted everything from git, do this: ./buildconf ./configure make Daniel uses a ./configure line similar to this for easier development: ./configure --disable-shared --enable-debug --enable-maintainer-mode In environments that don't support configure (i.e. Microsoft), do this: buildconf.bat REQUIREMENTS For buildconf (not buildconf.bat) to work, you need the following software installed: o autoconf 2.57 (or later) o automake 1.7 (or later) o libtool 1.4.2 (or later) o GNU m4 (required by autoconf) o nroff + perl If you don't have nroff and perl and you for some reason don't want to install them, you can rename the source file src/tool_hugehelp.c.cvs to src/tool_hugehelp.c and avoid having to generate this file. This will give you a stubbed version of the file that doesn't contain actual content. MAC OS X With Mac OS X 10.2 and the associated Developer Tools, the installed versions of the build tools are adequate. For Mac OS X 10.1 users, Guido Neitzer wrote the following step-by-step guide: 1. Install fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net) 2. Update fink to the newest version (with the installed fink) 3. Install the latest version of autoconf, automake and m4 with fink 4. Install version 1.4.1 of libtool - you find it in the "unstable" section (read the manual to see how to get unstable versions) 5. Get cURL from git 6. Build cURL with "./buildconf", "./configure", "make", "sudo make install"