2006-04-30 Aaron Flynt <aaron@aaronflynt.com>

[mono.git] / README

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+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 
 This is Mono.
 
-1. Installation
-2. Using Mono
-3. Directory Roadmap
+       1. Installation
+       2. Using Mono
+       3. Directory Roadmap
 
 1. Compilation and Installation
 ===============================
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ This is Mono.
 
                  Available from: http://www.gtk.org/
 
+       On Itanium, you must obtain libunwind:
+
+               http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/libunwind/download.php4
+
+       On Solaris, make sure that you used GNU tar to unpack this package, as
+       Solaris tar will not unpack this correctly, and you will get strange errors.
+
+       On Solaris, make sure that you use the GNU toolchain to build the software.
+
        Optional dependencies:
 
                * libgdiplus
@@ -38,7 +47,8 @@ This is Mono.
                make
                make install
 
-       Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC, SPARCv9, S/390, AMD64 and PowerPC systems.
+       Mono supports a JIT engine on x86, SPARC, SPARCv9, S/390, AMD64, ARM
+       and PowerPC systems.
 
        If you obtained this as a snapshot, you will need an existing
        Mono installation.  To upgrade your installation, unpack both
@@ -83,10 +93,11 @@ This is Mono.
 
        If you don't have a working Mono installation, an obvious choice
        is to install the latest released packages of 'mono' for your
-       distribution and try from the beginning.
+       distribution and running autogen.sh; make; make install in the
+       mono module directory.
 
-       You can also try a slightly more risky approach that should work
-       almost all the time.  
+       You can also try a slightly more risky approach: this may not work,
+       so start from the released tarball as detailed above.
 
        This works by first getting the latest version of the 'monolite'
        distribution, which contains just enough to run the 'mcs'
@@ -137,8 +148,6 @@ This is Mono.
        * runtime engine
 
                mono program.exe
-         or
-               mint program.exe
 
        * C# compiler
 
@@ -154,9 +163,6 @@ This is Mono.
 3. Directory Roadmap
 ====================
 
-       doc/
-               Contains the web site contents.
-
        docs/
                Technical documents about the Mono runtime.
 
@@ -169,7 +175,7 @@ This is Mono.
                metadata/
                        The object system and metadata reader.
 
-               jit/
+               mini/
                        The Just in Time Compiler.
 
                dis/
@@ -187,7 +193,7 @@ This is Mono.
                        definition of the CIL bytecodes.
 
                interp/
-                       Interpreter for CLI executables.
+                       Interpreter for CLI executables (obsolete).
 
                arch/
                        Architecture specific portions.