From c93be95f6ec471264f42a3f5008158b886fe6469 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Hudson Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:16:54 +0000 Subject: Get rid of some outdated stuff. --- NOTES | 33 +++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) (limited to 'NOTES') diff --git a/NOTES b/NOTES index 5e113ad..d9920d1 100644 --- a/NOTES +++ b/NOTES @@ -1,27 +1,13 @@ Please observe the following notes when making changes to the source tree. -We use the included ss and et libraries only when configured without ---enable-athena. configure uses the BUILDTOP make variable to locate -the top of the build tree in order to refer to automatically generated -files in lib/ss and lib/et. - -lib/dyn and lib/ss are internal libraries, i.e. they are only used by -programs (xzwrite uses lib/dyn and zctl uses lib/ss), not by the -Zephyr API. lib/et and lib/zephyr are external libraries; they are -necessary for linking programs which use Zephyr, so their libraries -are installed in the library directory. Note that the library built -in lib/et is named libcom_err.a, not libet.a, and that it is only -installed if --enable-athena is not used. - The directory h contains header files used internally in the zephyr source tree. The directory h/zephyr contains header files containing declarations for the Zephyr API. h/zephyr/zephyr_err.h is generated from lib/zephyr/zephyr_err.et when lib/zephyr is built. h/zephyr/zephyr.h is generated by configure, as is h/config.h. Those -header files live in the build tree, as do h/com_err.h and h/ss/ss.h -when --enable-athena is not given as an option to configure. All -other header files in h live in the source tree. +header files live in the build tree. All other header files in h live +in the source tree. h/config.h is generated by configure and contains the results of configure tests as well as definitions for the installation @@ -32,14 +18,13 @@ contains declarations internal to the "Zephyr system proper," which includes the Zephyr library, the server, the hostmanager, and (for now) zstat. -Two header files, h/zephyr/zephyr.h and lib/et/com_err.h (when ---enable-athena is not used) are public header files; that is, they -are installed with the Zephyr system. As such, these header files may -need to work with compilers other than the compiler used to build the -Zephyr system itself. Thus, we use __STDC__ (both in h/sysdep.h and -in the public header files) to guess whether the compiler will handle -const, prototypes, and stdarg. This is unfortunately not as reliable -as using autoconf features like AC_C_CONST. +h/zephyr/zephyr.h is a public header file; that is, it is installed +with the Zephyr system. As such, this header file may need to work +with compilers other than the compiler used to build the Zephyr system +itself. Thus, we use __STDC__ (both in h/sysdep.h and in zephyr.h) to +guess whether the compiler will handle const, prototypes, and stdarg. +This is unfortunately not as reliable as using autoconf features like +AC_C_CONST. The Zephyr system version number is kept in server/version.c, and should be updated when releases are made. -- cgit v1.2.3