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author | Gedare Bloom <gedare@rtems.org> | 2013-04-23 09:17:35 -0400 |
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committer | Gedare Bloom <gedare@rtems.org> | 2013-04-23 09:17:35 -0400 |
commit | ea123ca6fd35443ae6c6137842e8ae4c8b0336b3 (patch) | |
tree | 4401b72a0ec9f9b158a931be52b4500fdd06ec97 | |
parent | README: Rewrite and reduce (diff) | |
download | rtems-ea123ca6fd35443ae6c6137842e8ae4c8b0336b3.tar.bz2 |
README: Update README and INSTALL to try to be GNU'ish.
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 45 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | README | 8 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 45 deletions
@@ -1,47 +1,4 @@ Building RTEMS ============== -See the file README.configure. - - -UNCOMPRESSING .tgz FILES -=========================== -Many of the files found in this directory and its subdirectories -are gzip'ed, tar archive files. These files have the ".tgz" -extension. They were compressed with gzip version 1.2.4. - -Use a command sequence similar to the following to uncompress each -file: - - gzcat FILE.tgz | tar xvof - - -where FILE.tgz is the file to be installed. This procedure will -extract the files in the archive into the current directory. -All of the .tgz files associated with this release RTEMS will -place their contents in a subdirectory rtems-<release> in the current -directory. - -If you are unsure of what is in an RTEMS archive file, then use -the following command sequence to get a listing of the contents: - - gzcat FILE.tgz | tar tvf - - -NOTES: - -(1) The "-o" option to tar is included on the tar command line - so that the user extracting the tar archive will own the extracted - files. - -(2) gzcat is sometimes installed as zcat. Be warned that on many - (most) UNIX machines, zcat is associated with compress (.Z files). - -(3) If you do not have gzip 1.2.4, it is available from numerous sites - including this one. Other sites include ftp.gnu.org and ftp.cdrom.com. - -(4) The GNU archive files included in this distribution are packaged - exactly like they are on official GNU ftp sites. When extracting - GNU archives, they will not extract under a rtems-<version> - directory. They will extract themselves under a directory which - is the name and version of the tool in question. For example, - gcc-2.5.8.tgz will extract its contents into the subdirectory - gcc-2.5.8. +See the documentation referred to in the README. @@ -1,6 +1,10 @@ +This is the Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessing Systems (RTEMS). +The version number for this software is indicated in the VERSION file. + See the documentation manuals in doc/ with daily builds available online at http://rtems.org/onlinedocs/doc-current/share/rtems/html/ and released builds -at http://www.rtems.org/onlinedocs/releases/ +at http://www.rtems.org/onlinedocs/releases/ for information on building, +installing, and using RTEMS. The INSTALL file tells you to come back here. See the RTEMS Wiki at http://wiki.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page for community knowledge and tutorials. @@ -13,3 +17,5 @@ Get help on the mailing lists: * For questions and discussion related to development of RTEMS, use the rtems-devel ml: http://www.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/rtems-devel +See http://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/ to report a bug. + |