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authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2010-02-25 09:27:46 -0700
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2010-02-25 09:29:46 -0700
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downloadcoreutils-2590389aabc3ac2e88c56a13d28fa3caa22a5b46.tar.xz
bootstrap: resynchronize from gnulib
* gnulib: Update to latest. * bootstrap: Copy from gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap. * README-hacking: Describe how to use GNULIB_SRCDIR.
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@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ You can get a copy of the source repository like this:
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
$ cd coreutils
+As an optional step, if you already have a copy of the gnulib git
+repository on your hard drive, then you can use it as a reference to
+reduce download time and disk space requirements:
+
+ $ export GNULIB_SRCDIR=/path/to/gnulib
+
The next step is to get and check other files needed to build,
which are extracted from other source packages: