From 99f49949825acc53ae3f0a711ea3e8f96699442d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:40:12 +0100 Subject: Add better checks and docs for build tools Prompted by a report from Ed Avis: * README-hacking: Organise LZMA and Valgrind as as optional requirements rather than in their own sections. Mention bootstrap will now check tool versions. * README-prereq: Make a start on specific instructions for optaining build tools. Currently we just have notes for Fedora linux. * bootstrap.conf: Add the list of tools and versions required. * bootstrap: Add the logic to check for the required tools, and list all required tools and versions if any are missing. --- README-prereq | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README-prereq (limited to 'README-prereq') diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq new file mode 100644 index 000000000..74561145d --- /dev/null +++ b/README-prereq @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Detailed below are concrete examples for +getting the prerequisites for particular systems. + +- linux - fedora + + This shows the steps for getting the required tools to build coreutils 7.0 + on a Fedora 8 system. We try to use official packages where possible. + The 3 methods described for making these required packages available, should + help clarify build requirements on any linux system at least. + + 1. Make sure offical distro git package is installed + # yum install git + + 2. The distro autoconf is too old, but there is a newer one available + so we rebuild that and make it available to the full system: + # yum install emacs #autoconf build requires emacs (20MB) + # rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm + # rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autoconf-2.63-1.fc8.noarch.rpm + Apply the same method to install the lzma package. + + 3. The latest released automake (1.10.1) was not new enough, so we download + and build automake-1.10a from its repository and make it available + just to coreutils: + # yum install help2man #required to build automake fully + $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git + $ cd automake && ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps + $ make install + + Now we can build coreutils as described in README-hacking + as long as $PATH starts with $HOME/coreutils/deps -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2