From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:48:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify prerequisites.
X-Git-Tag: v4.3.6
X-Git-Url: http://git.pond.sub.org/?p=empserver;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d528c73db7d08c2523a7eb3370c6bcd1938b64d

Clarify prerequisites.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 27e70b20a..d5923d27d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,12 +21,13 @@ To build the server and set up a game, follow the steps below.
     If you downloaded a tarball, unpack it.
 
     If you're pulling from CVS, check out and run bootstrap.  This
-    requires Autoconf and Automake to be installed.
+    requires recent versions of Autoconf and Automake to be installed.
 
 (2) Building a server
 
-    Requirements: GNU make and, ANSI C, a curses library, Perl, nroff
-    or GNU troff (`groff'), Bourne Shell and the common utilities.
+    Prerequisites: GNU make and, ANSI C, a curses library, Perl, nroff
+    or GNU troff (`groff'), Bourne Shell and the common utilities,
+    conforming to the Single UNIX Specification Version 2.
 
     See file `INSTALL' for detailed compilation and installation
     instructions.  Quick guide for the impatient: run configure; make;
@@ -36,6 +37,11 @@ To build the server and set up a game, follow the steps below.
     If make fails without doing anything, you're probably not using
     GNU make.  Some systems have it installed as `gmake'.
 
+    Solaris supports SUSv2, but you need to set up your environment
+    for that.  Try passing
+        SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:$PATH
+    to make.  See standards(5) for details.
+
 (3) Creating a game
 
     * Create a configuration for your game.  make install installs one