			       VISAM
	       http://sourceforge.net/projects/vbisam

VISAM is a replacement for IBM's C-ISAM.

This package contains the following subdirectories:

    bin		VISAM utility programs
    libvbisam   The VISAM library
    tests       Test programs
    docs	Documentation

All programs are distributed under either the GNU General Public
License or the GNU Lesser General Public License.
See COPYING and COPYING.LIB for details.

See AUTHORS for the author of each file.

Requirements
============

VISAM only requires a working C development system.

Installation
============

See INSTALL for general installation instruction.  Typically,
this is done by the following commands:

    ./configure
    make
    make install

The default target for installed files is "/usr/local".

Other than the usual configure options (./configure --help)
there are the following specific VISAM configure options:

  --with-cisamcompat	use VISAM C-ISAM comatibility mode
  --with-lfs64		use large file system for file I/O (default)
  --with-debug		Enable debugging mode

To squeeze extra performance out of the code, you may want to
do for the install eg :
make install-strip


Development
===========

You need to install the following extra packages with specified
minumum version before hacking VISAM configure/makefile files:

  o Autoconf 2.59
  o Automake 1.9.6
  o Libtool 1.5.24
  o m4 1.4

Run "autoreconf -ifv -I m4" to regenerate configure/makefile scripts.
You need to run autoreconf whenever you modify configure.ac
or Makefile.am.
