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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-07-01 16:19:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2008-07-04 09:46:31 +0200 |
| commit | bba4d3e054cee1f479e6f7239304df676bd63fea (patch) | |
| tree | 7147a2683e9df42d7eebafcaee8a0bc601709eb1 /README-hacking | |
| parent | 760bc6f7e73014e934a744a9d46ea8dbf5ba25c8 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-bba4d3e054cee1f479e6f7239304df676bd63fea.tar.xz | |
* README-hacking: Update the section on LZMA.
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| -rw-r--r-- | README-hacking | 17 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index 0b99d0524..2e3c83a89 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -30,16 +30,11 @@ Later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient. * LZMA -The coreutils build procedure can build distribution tarballs with the -LZMA compression scheme. This feature is so new that it is not -supported by the latest version of Automake. If you don't care about -building LZMA tarballs, you can manually remove the string "dist-lzma" -from configure.ac before bootstrapping. - -If you do want to build LZMA tarballs, you'll need to make sure you -have the latest stable version of the LZMA Utils -<http://tukaani.org/lzma/>. Also, you'll need a version of -Automake that supports the dist-lzma feature, like automake-1.10.1. +This package's build procedure uses LZMA 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/>. * First GIT checkout @@ -69,7 +64,7 @@ Enjoy! ----- -Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |