Merge branch 'mainstream'

[sliver-openvswitch.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4c54b59..95ee898 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ on a specific platform, please see one of these files:
     - INSTALL.Fedora
     - INSTALL.RHEL
     - INSTALL.XenServer
+    - INSTALL.NetBSD
 
 Build Requirements
 ------------------
@@ -93,9 +94,8 @@ To run the unit tests, you also need:
     - Perl.  Version 5.10.1 is known to work.  Earlier versions should
       also work.
 
-If you modify the vswitchd database schema, then the E-R diagram in
-the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) manpage will be updated properly only if
-you have the following:
+The ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) manpage will include an E-R diagram, in
+formats other than plain text, only if you have the following:
 
     - "dot" from graphviz (http://www.graphviz.org/).
 
@@ -199,6 +199,11 @@ Prerequisites section, follow the procedure below to build.
 
       % ./configure --with-linux=/path/to/linux KARCH=mips
 
+   If you plan to do much Open vSwitch development, you might want to
+   add --enable-Werror, which adds the -Werror option to the compiler
+   command line, turning warnings into errors.  That makes it
+   impossible to miss warnings generated by the build.
+
    The configure script accepts a number of other options and honors
    additional environment variables.  For a full list, invoke
    configure with the --help option.