From 14fb875e8fedd56ca800adb5058a67b5152447e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zwelch Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:55:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] David Brownell : More minor improvements to README to help polish the 0.2.0 release: - Add note about Ubuntu 8.04 (in lieu of starting a README.Linux file). - Fix introductory paragraph to Bulding OpenOCD - Remove some vestigial texinfo markup. git-svn-id: svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk@2448 b42882b7-edfa-0310-969c-e2dbd0fdcd60 --- README | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 5fc9655881..07ccac1839 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -117,13 +117,11 @@ Building OpenOCD The INSTALL file contains generic instructions for running 'configure' and compiling the OpenOCD source code. That file is provided by default -for all GNU automake packages, and +for all GNU automake packages. If you are not familiar with the GNU +autotools, then you should read those instructions first. -if you are not familiar with the GNU autotools, then you should read -those instructions first. -Still, the -remainder of this document tries to provide complete instructions for -those looking for a quick-install +The remainder of this document tries to provide some instructions for +those looking for a quick-install. OpenOCD Dependencies -------------------- @@ -143,11 +141,13 @@ build support for a USB or FTDI-based interface: - ft2232 also requires: - libftdi: http://www.intra2net.com/opensource/ftdi/ *OR* - ftd2xx: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm, - or the Amontec version (from @uref{http://www.amontec.com}), for + or the Amontec version (from http://www.amontec.com), for easier support of JTAGkey's vendor and product IDs. Many Linux distributions provide these packages through their automated -installation and update mechanisms. +installation and update mechanisms; however, some Linux versions include +older versions of libftdi. In particular, using Ubuntu 8.04 has been +problematic, but newer versions of Ubuntu do not have this problem. Compiling OpenOCD ----------------- @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ called "openocd" in the current directory): svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd/trunk openocd -If you prefer GIT based tools, the @command{git-svn} package works too: +If you prefer GIT based tools, the git-svn package works too: git svn clone -s svn://svn.berlios.de/openocd @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ Tips For Building From The Subversion Repository Building OpenOCD from a repository requires a recent version of the GNU autotools (autoconf >= 2.59 and automake >= 1.9). For building on -Windows, you have to use Cygwin. Make sure that your @env{PATH} +Windows, you have to use Cygwin. Make sure that your PATH environment variable contains no other locations with Unix utils (like UnxUtils) - these can't handle the Cygwin paths, resulting in obscure dependency errors. This was an observation gathered from the logs of -- 2.30.2