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Fix stupid bug in help2html.
author David A. Holland
date Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:13:42 -0400
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Things you should do when developing:

   - Configure with --enable-maintainer-mode. (See install.txt.)

   - Set up both a native and a Windows build tree.

   - Create a directory "bin" under the top level of the source tree,
     and copy a known working version of agcl there. (See below.)

Useful make targets and options:

	all		Compile everything.
	rules		Update the make rules.
	agfiles		Generate AG output from syntax files.
	agclean		Remove AG output files.
	clean		Remove object files and executables.
	distclean	Remove all compiler-generated material.
	install		Install everything.

	SAFE=1		Compile with "safe" AnaGram (see below)
	UNSAFE=1	Compile with "unsafe" AnaGram (see below)

If you add a file to the build, rerun "make rules" in the affected
build directories. If you add a whole directory, you need to rerun the
configure script to generate the new makefile. You can do this in an
existing build directory by running "./config.status", which remembers
the options you gave to configure.

Dependency tracking for header files is automatic.

If you want to remove a header file from the build, the easiest way is
to make sure it isn't used (e.g., by putting an #error in it and
building) before actually deleting it. Otherwise you may need to blow
away the depend files (depend.mk and *.u or *.d) to keep make from
complaining that it doesn't exist.

Bootstrapping notes:

AnaGram is partly written using itself. This creates the potential for
various kinds of problems. 

The distribution archives ship with up-to-date versions of the
generated code; if you aren't developing, you should be able to just
use those and everything should be ok.

If you *are* developing, the following precautions are taken:

   - By default, the build runs $(TOP)/bin/agcl, which you should
     update by hand as you see fit.

   - If you set SAFE (e.g., make SAFE=1) the build system will run
     $(TOP)/bin/safe-agcl instead, the idea being that you can be
     be very conservative about updating this and use it as a 
     fallback if you manage to delete or break $(TOP)/bin/agcl.

   - If you set UNSAFE (e.g., make UNSAFE=1) the build system will
     run the most recent native agcl right out of the build tree.
     Use with due caution.

   - The AG-generated code used in the build is kept in CVS, so
     if all else fails you can revert to a clean version that way.
     Be sure to revert matching .cpp and .h files, or the build 
     will fail.

Note that $(TOP)/bin is neither created nor populated by default;
if developing you should set it up yourself with a suitable agcl
executable.

Also note that if you are developing you should always configure with
--enable-maintainer-mode, and this *requires* $(TOP)/bin/agcl to exist
in order to test-compile the examples. This also creates a minor
bootstrap problem: if you don't already have an agcl to place in
$(TOP)/bin, you have to compile one. The easiest way is as follows:

   path-to-source/configure native
   make rules
   make
   mkdir path-to-source/bin
   cp anagram/run/agcl path-to-source/bin/agcl
   ./config.status --enable-maintainer-mode
   make rules
   make