On 03/02/2016 01:44 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: >>> The instructions to build is in the README-hacking file. Perhaps we >>> should add INSTALL file. >> >> INSTALL is generated as part of bootstrapping the package. >> README-hacking tells how to bootstrap the package. Building from git is >> different than building from a tarball (which has already been >> bootstrapped). > > It would be useful if the Git repository had a simple INSTALL file > saying something like: > > This finutils source needs to be "bootstrapped" before the usual build > and install procedures. See README-hacking for instructions. > > That would tell new users what to do. The bootstrapping procedure would > overwrite the initial INSTALL file with the normal INSTALL information.
It's amazingly hard to override INSTALL when using automake to generate it automatically during bootstrap. Submit a patch, and we'll consider it, but I won't be the one writing such a patch. > > BTW, in README-hacking, item 3 says: > > 3. Run "configure" and "make" in the normal way. > > If you have GNU libintl installed, you can just run "configure". > ^^ > Otherwise, run "configure --disable-nls". > ^^ > > At the two points I've marked, that should say "./configure" -- there's > no guarantee that "." is in the user's path. Indeed, and that's a much simpler thing to patch. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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