Loading ares/README.cares +38 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -23,3 +23,41 @@ original ares. You'll find all c-ares details and news here: http://c-ares.haxx.se/ NOTES FOR C-ARES HACKERS The following notes apply to c-ares version 7.6.1 and later. * The distributed ares_build.h file is only intended to be used on systems which can not run the also distributed configure script. * The distributed ares_build.h file is generated as a copy of ares_build.h.dist when the c-ares source code distribution archive file is originally created. * If you check out from CVS on a non-configure platform, you must run the appropriate buildconf* script to set up ares_build.h and other local files before being able of compiling the library. * On systems capable of running the configure script, the configure process will overwrite the distributed ares_build.h file with one that is suitable and specific to the library being configured and built, this new file is generated from the ares_build.h.in template file. * If you intend to distribute an already compiled c-ares library you _MUST_ also distribute along with it the generated ares_build.h which has been used to compile it. Otherwise the library will be of no use for the users of the library that you have built. It is _your_ responsability to provide this file. No one at the c-ares project can know how you have built the library. * File ares_build.h includes platform and configuration dependant info, and must not be modified by anyone. Configure script generates it for you. * We cannot assume anything else but very basic compiler features being present. While libcurl requires an ANSI C compiler to build, some of the earlier ANSI compilers clearly can't deal with some preprocessor operators. * Newlines must remain unix-style for older compilers' sake. * Comments must be written in the old-style /* unnested C-fashion */ Loading
ares/README.cares +38 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -23,3 +23,41 @@ original ares. You'll find all c-ares details and news here: http://c-ares.haxx.se/ NOTES FOR C-ARES HACKERS The following notes apply to c-ares version 7.6.1 and later. * The distributed ares_build.h file is only intended to be used on systems which can not run the also distributed configure script. * The distributed ares_build.h file is generated as a copy of ares_build.h.dist when the c-ares source code distribution archive file is originally created. * If you check out from CVS on a non-configure platform, you must run the appropriate buildconf* script to set up ares_build.h and other local files before being able of compiling the library. * On systems capable of running the configure script, the configure process will overwrite the distributed ares_build.h file with one that is suitable and specific to the library being configured and built, this new file is generated from the ares_build.h.in template file. * If you intend to distribute an already compiled c-ares library you _MUST_ also distribute along with it the generated ares_build.h which has been used to compile it. Otherwise the library will be of no use for the users of the library that you have built. It is _your_ responsability to provide this file. No one at the c-ares project can know how you have built the library. * File ares_build.h includes platform and configuration dependant info, and must not be modified by anyone. Configure script generates it for you. * We cannot assume anything else but very basic compiler features being present. While libcurl requires an ANSI C compiler to build, some of the earlier ANSI compilers clearly can't deal with some preprocessor operators. * Newlines must remain unix-style for older compilers' sake. * Comments must be written in the old-style /* unnested C-fashion */