From 940d66d839e7e5ec4b8f92704538b07c94310065 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "B. Watson" Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:52:06 -0400 Subject: add INSTALL.txt and .gitignore --- .gitignore | 2 ++ INSTALL.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .gitignore create mode 100644 INSTALL.txt diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f5a571c --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +slowbaud +test.out diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..804bfa5 --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +slowbaud is pretty simple to build. + +Prerequisites: + +- UNIXish OS (possibly even Windows, these days) +- C compiler + +You should be able to build slowbaud with "make" (which can be either +GNU or BSD make). It'll run from its source directory (as ./slowbaud), +and you can install it system-wide with "make install"... which +supports standard variables like DESTDIR for packagers. + +If you're going to edit the documentation, it's in RST and you'll +need the rst2man.py (or just rst2man) command. On Slackware 14.2, +this comes from the docutils package on SlackBuilds.org; on 15.0 +it will be in the core OS, as python-docutils. On Debian, it's in +python3-docutils. -- cgit v1.2.3