a2ps Port for BeOS
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Ported by Kristan Slack <kslack@uq.net.au>
1999-06-16

This port is also under the GNU License. Feel free (as usual) to modify
all the sources and BeOS-specific install shell script (install.sh).

Preamble:
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NOTE: The final binary will not be used by default because an a2ps exists
in the main /bin directory. IT is version 4.3 (old, and much less
functional).

You could replace it, or move this a2ps there, or rename the old one to
a2ps-old.


Extra Install Instruction for BeOS:
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Step 1:
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Just type
./install.sh

and the script will configure, built and install a2ps for you into:

/boot/home/config directories

with the binary 'a2ps' in the /boot/home/config/bin directory

All the directories can be changed if you wish (by changing the install
script).

The script will also clean the object files up and remove the debug code
from the final binary using 
'strip --strip-debug /boot/home/config/bin/a2ps'

NOTE: The other binaries are not stripped. Feel free to do this yourself.

Other Information:
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Configure has been run with these options:

./configure -host=i586 --prefix=/boot/home/config 
--exec-prefix=/boot/home/config --with-gnu-ld --disable-nls

This instructed the Makefiles to point to your user config settings and
to place any final files here.

NOTE:
The Makefiles produced by the configure script have been edited as
detailed in Step 2. But if you re-run configure you'll have to re-edit
these yourself.

NOTE: Some problems occured in the linking - the linker will attempt to
link in a maths library for the cos, sin, etc functions. This is not
necessary in BeOS as I'm told these functions exist in other libraries 
(which arealready linked in).

This problem has been fixed as detailed in the CHANGES.BEOS file.

The final executable will also be huge (around 1.8Mbs). This is because of
the debug information included in it.

To remove this, I included the strip command in the install script.