* snapshots.readme: Add notes for UNIX make and GNU make.

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Thu May 6 08:51:35 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
* snapshots.readme: Add notes for UNIX make and GNU make.
Mon May 3 17:06:45 1993 Fred Fish (fnf@cygnus.com)
* snapshots.readme: Clarify bison/byacc/yacc notes.

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GDB SNAPSHOT SYSTEM
(general info)
Updated 5/3/93
Updated 5/6/93
WHAT ARE GDB SNAPSHOTS
----------------------
Snapshots are an "image" of the main GDB development tree, captured at a
particular random instant in time. When you use the snapshots, you should
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HOW TO GET THE SNAPSHOTS
------------------------
The current plan is to provide a full snapshot once weekly, and incremental
diffs on a daily basis. Each daily diff will be relative to the source
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GDB TEST SUITE
--------------
A test suite is distributed as an integral part of the snapshots. However,
to use it you will need to get a copy of the dejagnu testing framework.
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HOW TO SUBMIT CHANGES
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Patches should be sent to gdb-patches@cygnus.com. Questions about the
snapshots themselves, problems accessing the snapshots, etc can also be sent
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like. The emacs command ^X4A will create a ChangeLog entry header
for you.
BISON and BYACC
---------------
GDB's language parsers are all portable, and can be compiled with bison,
byacc, traditional Unix yacc, or other compatible parser generators.
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o Specify BISON=yacc on the make command line to override the default.
UNIX MAKE and GNU MAKE
----------------------
When you build gdb in the same directory as the source, you should be able
to use any available "make" that has traditional UNIX make functionality.
If you build gdb in a separate directory tree from the source, using the
configure "--subdir" option, then only GNU make is fully supported, although
other makes with complete VPATH support should work (SunOS make for example).
Thanks for your help and support.
-Fred Fish