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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-10-15 11:05:49 +0100
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-10-15 11:05:49 +0100
commit15fca2a02e38d69915c52ef41eee3c7d52b67f3e (patch)
tree647416d1c0b6ca351a973841be011ef0d369fed6 /README-prereq
parent743be23ed0c535ef69db8d2112874061ae3ec5b8 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-15fca2a02e38d69915c52ef41eee3c7d52b67f3e.tar.xz
maint: update the instructions for building prerequisites
* README-prereq: Update as per the latest required versions in bootstrap.conf. Also add a missing cd command. Reported by Aaron Davies Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15612
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index 66688dcf7..0232d9c96 100644
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@@ -29,9 +29,12 @@ set correctly by running this command:
* autoconf *
- # Note Autoconf 2.62 or newer is needed to build automake-1.11.1
+ # Note Autoconf 2.62 or newer is needed to build automake-1.11.2
+ # but we specify 2.64 here as that's what coreutils requires.
+ # Please use the latest stable release version as indicated by git tags.
git clone --depth=1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf.git
- git checkout v2.62
+ cd autoconf
+ git checkout v2.64
autoreconf -vi
./configure --prefix=$prefix
make install
@@ -41,7 +44,7 @@ set correctly by running this command:
# Note help2man is required to build automake fully
git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git
cd automake
- git checkout v1.11.1
+ git checkout v1.11.2
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=$prefix
make install