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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-07-02 09:51:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2009-07-03 16:47:17 +0100 |
| commit | 3e565eb3a6a6d8992489195f5c0fd84d4246b800 (patch) | |
| tree | dad8e83a156cfa0d8f59c6ef2d5651877aeb18c5 /README-hacking | |
| parent | 6d0d1c47b28ea4989a6608e9f7d51218ee0c89ef (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-3e565eb3a6a6d8992489195f5c0fd84d4246b800.tar.xz | |
maint: generalize the development prerequisites docs
* README-hacking: Add a little more high level info and
merge notes on specific developer prerequisites into README-prereq
* README-prereq: Remove the Fedora 8 specific information
and generalize the information to be applicable to any system.
Diffstat (limited to 'README-hacking')
| -rw-r--r-- | README-hacking | 28 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index 555128f31..b72e54c82 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -9,33 +9,15 @@ See also HACKING for more detailed coreutils contribution guidelines. We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the GIT repository. This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources. -Specific tools and versions will be checked for and listed by the -bootstrap script shown below, and will include: - -- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/> -- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/> -- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/> -- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/> -- Git <http://git.or.cz/> -- Gperf <http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/> -- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/> -- Perl <http://www.cpan.org/> -- Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/> -- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/> - -- Valgrind +Note the requirements to build the released archive are much less and +are just the requirements of the standard ./configure && make procedure. +Specific development tools and versions will be checked for and listed by +the bootstrap script. See README-prereq for specific notes on obtaining +these prerequisite tools. Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if Valgrind supports your architecture. See also README-valgrind. -- XZ utils (successor to LZMA) - -This package's build procedure uses XZ to create a compressed -distribution tarball. Using this feature of Automake requires -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/xz/> - While building from a just-cloned source tree may require installing a few prerequisites, later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient. |