CC-tea/coreutils
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils.git synced 2026-02-10 09:21:58 +02:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

maint: improve the info about $PATH in README-prereq

Browse Source 
* README-prereq: It wasn't obvious that the $PATH should
be set before building any of the prerequisite packages,
so move that information up.
This commit is contained in:
Pádraig Brady
2009-12-28 13:01:51 +00:00
parent fd93fc3ef4
commit 2024418dc4
1 changed files with 6 additions and 5 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

11
README-prereq
View File

@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ Note please try to install/build official packages for your system.
If these are not available then one can make them available only to
the coreutils build using the following instructions. Even if the
official packages for your system are too old, please install them
as they may be required to build the newer versions.
as they may be required to build the newer versions. The examples
below build into $HOME/coreutils/deps/, so first ensure that your
$PATH is set correctly, which can be done for the current shell like:
export PATH=$HOME/coreutils/deps/bin:$PATH
* autoconf *
@@ -50,7 +54,4 @@ requires version 1.10a or newer, as well as the xz program itself.
./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
make install
Now we can build coreutils as described in README-hacking
as long as $PATH starts with $HOME/coreutils/deps/bin, which
one can set for the current shell like:
$ export PATH=$HOME/coreutils/deps/bin:$PATH
Now one can build coreutils as described in README-hacking.