1 Installation procedures for `send-pr'
3 If you receive `send-pr' as part of a larger software distribution, it
4 will be automatically installed when the full distribution is
5 installed. The `send-pr' directory, however, is easily installed by
6 itself by following these steps:
8 1. Unpack the distribution into a directory which we will refer to as
11 2. Edit the `Makefile' to reflect local conventions.
13 Specifically, you should edit the variable "prefix" to alter
14 the installation location. The default is '/usr/local'. All
15 files are installed under "prefix" (see below).
18 make all install [ info ] install-info [ clean ]
20 from the "build directory". The targets mean the following:
22 all Builds `send-pr' and `install-sid'
24 install Installs the following:
26 send-pr into PREFIX/bin
27 install-sid into PREFIX/bin
28 send-pr.1 into PREFIX/man/man1
29 categories as PREFIX/lib/gnats/SITE
30 send-pr-el.in as PREFIX/lib/emacs/lisp/send-pr.el
32 info (optional) Builds "send-pr.info" from "send-pr.texi"
33 (send-pr.info is included with this distribution)
35 install-info Installs "send-pr.info" into PREFIX/info
37 clean (optional) Removes all intermediary build files that can
38 be rebuilt from source code
44 where SID is the submitter identification code you received with
45 `send-pr'. If you've downloaded `send-pr' from the Net, use "net"
49 5. Any users who wish to use the Emacs version of `send-pr' must place
50 the following line in their ".emacs" files:
52 (autoload 'send-pr "send-pr" "Submit a Problem Report." t)
55 6. Create a mail alias for the support site you received `send-pr'
56 from, and for every site with which you wish to use `send-pr' to
57 communicate with, each with a suffix of `-gnats'. The support
58 site(s) will provide the correct addresses toward which these
59 aliases should point. For instance, edit your mail aliases file
60 to contain something like:
62 # support sites; for use with send-pr
63 cygnus-gnats: bugs@cygnus.com # Cygnus Support
64 bumblebee-gnats: bumblebugs@bumblebee.com # Bumblebee BASIC, Inc.
65 mycompany-gnats: bugs@my.company.com (if you use GNATS locally)
67 `send-pr' automatically searches for these aliases when you type
73 `send-pr' also uses SITE to determine the categories of bugs the site
74 in question accepts by looking in PREFIX/lib/gnats/SITE
77 7. That's it! See "send-pr.info", "send-pr.texi", and/or "send-pr.1" for
78 information on using `send-pr'.
81 Copyright (c) 1993, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
82 See the file COPYING for copyright information concerning this
83 distribution and all its components.