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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-11-30 19:35:10 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-01-19 13:47:04 +0100
commit9a45c1966716be7f02f8e20f014af720b69aa6fb (patch)
tree982db24f90688c9c21cc7100f5221115345eda0d
parentf6240c49df11d1635782818d0cc90161b5b988cc (diff)
downloadcoreutils-9a45c1966716be7f02f8e20f014af720b69aa6fb.tar.xz
build: use dist-xz, not dist-lzma, cont'd
* README-hacking: mention XZ utils * README-prereq: Add a FIXME comment.
-rw-r--r--README-hacking10
-rw-r--r--README-prereq1
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index f51bb0143..8333cd07c 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ Later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient.
Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
Valgrind supports your architecture. See also README-valgrind.
-- LZMA
+- XZ utils (successor to LZMA)
-This package's build procedure uses LZMA to create a compressed
+This package's build procedure uses XZ to create a compressed
distribution tarball. Using this feature of Automake requires
-version 1.10.1 or newer, as well as the lzma program itself.
-Make sure you have the latest stable version of the LZMA Utils
-from <http://tukaani.org/lzma/>.
+version 1.10a or newer, as well as the xz program itself.
+Make sure you have the latest version of the XZ Utils from
+<http://tukaani.org/lzma/download>.
* First GIT checkout
diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
index 74561145d..91676f4ce 100644
--- a/README-prereq
+++ b/README-prereq
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ getting the prerequisites for particular systems.
# rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm
# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autoconf-2.63-1.fc8.noarch.rpm
Apply the same method to install the lzma package.
+ [FIXME: mention xz when it's packaged]
3. The latest released automake (1.10.1) was not new enough, so we download
and build automake-1.10a from its repository and make it available