Added Olivers FAQ.

Update README.Unix with additional Irix information.
configure script addes search paths before looking for plib.  Tweaked
  checks for win32 opengl/glut/glu libs.

Makefile.am

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 SUBDIRS = Include Lib Simulator Tools Tests
 
-EXTRA_DIST = README.Unix README.Linux README.MacOS README.Win32 \
+EXTRA_DIST = FG-FAQ.v3 README.Unix README.Linux README.MacOS README.Win32 \
 	README.autoconf README.gfc README.gpc README.plib README.running \
 	Thanks VERSION acsite.m4 acconfig.h irix-hack.pl
 

README.Unix

@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
-*** not much here yet ***
-
 If you are reading this in hopes that you will find the answer to a
-specific question, please send the question to curt@me.umn.edu and
+specific question, please send the question to curt@flightgear.org and
 suggest that I include the answer here.
 
 
-Compilers and Portability
+I. Compilers and Portability
-=========================
+============================
 
 Flight Gear is known to build with egcs-1.1 and higher, as well as
 gcc-2.8 and higher.  Your mileage may vary with earlier versions of
@@ -22,8 +20,8 @@ platforms, but I must depend on others to make sure their favorite
 platform and compiler is well supported.
 
 
-GLUT
+II. GLUT
-====
+========
 
 Flight Gear requires GLUT version 3.7 or later (aka GameGLUT._ GLUT
 needs to be installed on your system before you can build Flight Gear.
@@ -40,8 +38,8 @@ you can write a single OpenGL program that works on both Win32 PCs and
 X11 workstations.
 
 
-Joystick Support
+III. Joystick Support
-================
+=====================
 
 GLUT only has win32 joystick support but even at that, it is not well
 implimented.  So we use Steve Backer's joystick library when possible,
@@ -55,13 +53,82 @@ To make sure joystick support is included when building under Linux:
   - /usr/include/linux/joystick.h must exist on your system.
 
 
-Native SGI Irix Compilers
+IV. Procedure to build FGFS with Native SGI Irix Compilers from CVS Sources
-=========================
+===========================================================================
+
+(Contributed by Todd Smith <msmith@sikorsky.com>)
+
+Download the latest version of plib (1.0.3) from:
+
+    http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker/plib/
+
+Install it both in /usr/local/plib and /usr/local/include/plib.  I
+think that I am using it from /usr/local/include.
+
+Download the FlightGear-0.6 via anonymous cvs as usual, then do:
+
+> aclocal		# normal
+> automake -a -i	# added '-i' flag to avoid dependency calc
+			# that only sgi cc/CC doesn't support
+> autoconf		# normal
+
+Note the change in automake's command argument.
+
+Now set env variables to use native compilers (csh syntax).
+
+> setenv CC cc
+> setenv CXX CC
+> setenv CFLAGS '-Xcpluscomm -DEBUG:suppress=1001,1012,1014,
+                            1116,1172,1174,1401,1460,1551,1552'
+> setenv CXXFLAGS '-DEBUG:suppress=1001,1012,1014,1116,1172,
+                          1174,1401,1460,1551,1552,3303,3322'
+
+The '-DEBUG:suppress=' stuff just suppresses anonying warnings during
+compile.  The meaning of each one is shown later in this file.
+You can use all or none of these here.
+
+> setenv CPPFLAGS '-woff 1014'
+
+This is required so that configure will really believe that plib
+is installed.  ( Otherwise a compiler warning makes configure
+that plib/pu.h couldn't be found. )
+
+> ./configure
+> find . -name Makefile -exec irix-hack.pl {} \;	# normal irix hack
+> gmake
+
+Runs great.
+
+Todd
+msmith@sikorsky.com
+
+-------------------------------------------
+Warnings that I get. Ignore at your lesiure.
+
+C and C++:
+warning(1001): last line of file ends without a newline
+warning(1012): parsing restarts here after previous syntax error
+warning(1014): extra text after expected end of preprocessing directive		(breaks configure)
+warning(1116): non-void function "poly_index_init" should return a value
+warning(1172): subscript out of range
+warning(1174): variable "j" was declared but never referenced
+warning(1401): qualified name is not allowed in member declaration
+warning(1460): function "..." redeclared "inline" after being called
+warning(1551): variable "Altitude" is used before its value is set
+warning(1552): variable "last" was set but never used
+
+C++ only:
+warning(3303): type qualifier on return type is meaningless
+warning(3322): omission of explicit type is nonstandard ("int" assumed)
+
+
+V. Additional Native SGI Irix Compilers Notes
+=============================================
 
 If you are building with native SGI compilers try running configure like the
 following (assuming sh syntax):
 
-  CC=cc CXX=CC CFLAGS=-Xcpluscomm ./configure
+  CC=cc CXX=CC CFLAGS="-Xcpluscomm -woff 1014" ./configure
 
 Then (and this step is *VERY* important for your success) run the following 
 command:
@@ -100,3 +167,18 @@ Don't worry about the make failing in the Tools directory.  That's all
 under construction stuff right now (3/9/99) and if you get that far, 
 rejoice because it means the simulator was successfully built in the 
 Simulator/Main subdirectory.
+
+Special note for those Irix users using the native compilers *AND* checking
+out the current source tree via CVS:
+
+You will need to run "aclocal ; automake -a ; autoconf" as per 
+README.autoconf, but you need an additional flag for automake to disable
+automatic dependency building (which breaks the native Irix compilers.)
+You should instead run:
+
+    aclocal ; automake -a --include-deps; autoconf
+
+Then, proceed on to the configure step.  
+
+Questions?  I realize this section is a big heap of random information so
+if something isn't quite working for you, please ask.

Thanks

@@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ Bruce Jackson of NASA <e.b.jackson@larc.nasa.gov>
   flight model.  Bruce has patiently answered my many, many questions.
 
 
+Oliver L. K. <delise@rp-plus.de>
+  FAQ Maintainer.
+
+
 Tom Knienieder <knienieder@ms.netwing.at>
   Ported Steve's Audio library to Win32
 

configure.in

@@ -63,6 +63,23 @@ dnl Let the Win32 user specify if they want to build with the SGI
 dnl opengl.dll as opposed to the more standard openg32.dll
 AC_ARG_WITH(sgi-opengl, [  --with-sgi-opengl       Build against SGI's opengl.dll glu.dll and glut.dll])
 
+dnl Check for MS Windows environment
+AC_CHECK_HEADER(windows.h)
+
+dnl extra library and include directories
+EXTRA_DIRS="/usr/local /usr/X11R6"
+
+if test -d /opt/X11R6 ; then
+     EXTRA_DIRS="$EXTRA_DIRS /opt/X11R6"
+fi
+
+if test "x$ac_cv_header_windows_h" = "xyes" ; then
+    EXTRA_DIRS="${EXTRA_DIRS} `pwd`/Win32"
+# elif test `uname -s` = "SunOS" ; then
+#   EXTRA_DIRS="${EXTRA_DIRS} `pwd`/SunOS"
+fi
+wi_EXTRA_DIRS(no, ${EXTRA_DIRS})
+
 dnl Check for "plib" without which we cannot go on
 AC_CHECK_HEADER(plib/pu.h)
 if test "x$ac_cv_header_plib_pu_h" != "xyes"; then
@@ -76,9 +93,6 @@ if test "x$ac_cv_header_plib_pu_h" != "xyes"; then
     exit
 fi
 
-dnl Check for MS Windows environment
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(windows.h)
-
 dnl Using AM_CONDITIONAL is a step out of the protected little 
 dnl automake fold so it is potentially dangerous.  But, we are
 dnl beginning to run into cases where the standard checks are not
@@ -111,20 +125,6 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_LINUX_JOYSTICK, test -r /usr/include/linux/joystick.h )
 dnl Enable serial support on Unix type systems
 AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_UNIX_SERIAL, true)
 
-dnl extra library and include directories
-EXTRA_DIRS="/usr/local /usr/X11R6"
-
-if test -d /opt/X11R6 ; then
-     EXTRA_DIRS="$EXTRA_DIRS /opt/X11R6"
-fi
-
-if test "x$ac_cv_header_windows_h" = "xyes" ; then
-    EXTRA_DIRS="${EXTRA_DIRS} `pwd`/Win32"
-# elif test `uname -s` = "SunOS" ; then
-#   EXTRA_DIRS="${EXTRA_DIRS} `pwd`/SunOS"
-fi
-wi_EXTRA_DIRS(no, ${EXTRA_DIRS})
-
 dnl Check for X11 (fancy)
 AC_PATH_XTRA
 
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB(Xmu, XmuLookupStandardColormap)
 dnl check for OpenGL related libraries
 
 if test "x$ac_cv_header_windows_h" != "xyes" ; then
-    dnl Reasonable stuff non-windoze variants ... :-)
+    dnl Reasonable stuff for non-windoze variants ... :-)
 
     AC_CHECK_LIB(GLcore, glNewList)
     if test "x$ac_cv_lib_GLcore_glNewList" = "xno" ; then
@@ -197,6 +197,10 @@ else
     dnl force a failed check since we will be building under windoze
     AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_XMESA_FX, test "no" = "yes")
 
+    dnl just define these to true and hope for the best
+    ac_cv_lib_glut_glutGetModifiers="yes"
+    ac_cv_lib_glut_glutGameModeString="yes"
+
     if test "x$with_sgi_opengl" = "xyes" ; then
         echo "Building with glut.dll, glu.dll, and opengl.dll"
 	WIN32_GLUT=glut
@@ -209,34 +213,9 @@ else
 	WIN32_OPENGL=opengl32
     fi
 
-    if test -f `pwd`/Win32/${WIN32_GLUT}.dll; then
+    LIBS="$LIBS -l${WIN32_GLUT} -l${WIN32_GLU} -l${WIN32_OPENGL}"
-	echo "    found ${WIN32_GLUT}.dll, adding -l${WIN32_GLUT}"
-	LIBS="$LIBS -l${WIN32_GLUT}"
-    else
-	echo "    Cannot find ${WIN32_GLUT}.dll"
-	exit 1
-    fi
-
-    if test -f `pwd`/Win32/${WIN32_GLU}.dll; then
-	echo "    found ${WIN32_GLU}.dll"
-    else
-	echo "    Can't find ${WIN32_GLU}.dll, assuming it's someplace"
-    fi
-    echo "    adding -l${WIN32_GLU}"
-    LIBS="$LIBS -l${WIN32_GLU}"
-
-    if test -f `pwd`/Win32/${WIN32_OPENGL}.dll; then
-	echo "    found ${WIN32_OPENGL}.dll"
-    else
-	echo "    Can't find ${WIN32_OPENGL}.dll, assuming it's somplace"
-    fi
-    echo "    adding -l${WIN32_OPENGL}"
-    LIBS="$LIBS -l${WIN32_OPENGL}"
-
-    echo "    adding -luser32 -lgdi32"
     LIBS="$LIBS -luser32 -lgdi32"
-    ac_cv_lib_glut_glutGetModifiers="yes"
+    echo "Will link apps with $LIBS"
-    ac_cv_lib_glut_glutGameModeString="yes"
 fi
 
 if test "x$ac_cv_lib_glut_glutGetModifiers" = "xno"; then