Release coccinelle-0.1.8

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                            Coccinelle 


Coccinelle allows programmers to easily write some complex
style-preserving source-to-source transformations on C source code,
like for instance to perform some refactorings.

To install Coccinelle from its source, see the instructions in install.txt.
Once you have installed Coccinelle (either from the source or from one
of the binary form available on the Coccinelle website), You may have
to setup a few environment variables so that the Coccinelle program
knows where to find its configuration files.
For bash do:

  $ source env.sh

For tcsh do:

  $ source env.csh 



You can then test coccinelle with:

  $ spatch -sp_file demos/simple.cocci demos/simple.c

If you downloaded the bytecode version of spatch you may first 
have to install OCaml (which contains the 'ocamlrun' bytecode interpreter,
the equivalent of 'java', the Java virtual machine, but for OCaml) and then do:

  $ ocamlrun spatch -sp_file demos/simple.cocci demos/simple.c



For more information on Coccinelle, type 'make docs' and have a look at the 
files in the docs/ directory. You may need to install the texlive-fonts-extra
packages from your distribution to compile some of the LaTeX documentation
files.