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Doc improvements.

* README-hacking: Prefer the no-hyphen variant of git commands,
e.g., use "git pull" not "git-pull".
Don't presume that the only way to read this document is via a
prior git clone: provide instructions for cloning coreutils, too.

* README-hacking: Add "cd automake" in build instructions.
From Bob Proulx.
This commit is contained in:
Jim Meyering
2007-10-24 09:13:59 +02:00
parent b924d0380e
commit ffc29e91c4
2 changed files with 19 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
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.
Later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient.
* LZMA
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ 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
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake
$ cd automake
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make install
@@ -52,9 +53,12 @@ and build and install that version.
* First GIT checkout
Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
this package from GIT. The next step is to get other files needed to
build, which are extracted from other source packages:
You can get a copy of the source repository like this:
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are
extracted from other source packages:
$ ./bootstrap
@@ -67,7 +71,7 @@ And there you are! Just
At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
and the GIT master copy:
$ git-diff
$ git diff
should output no difference.