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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2007-10-22 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + * README-hacking: Describe how to build with LZMA. + 2007-10-22 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Remove git-version-gen's first parameter. diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking index 3539d7378..77464bd7d 100644 --- a/README-hacking +++ b/README-hacking @@ -27,6 +27,29 @@ Valgrind supports your architecture. Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful. 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 SDK +<http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html>. Also, you'll need a version of +Automake that supports the dist-lzma feature, which was added to +Automake on 2007-10-09 but is not yet available in a stable Automake +version. So until Automake 1.11 comes out, you'll need to get the +bleeding-edge Automake version with a command like this: + + $ cvs -d sources.redhat.com:/cvs/automake co automake + $ ./bootstrap + $ ./configure + $ make install + +and build and install that version. + * First GIT checkout Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out |