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-*- outline -*-
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These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
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These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
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* Requirements
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We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the GIT repository.
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This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more
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requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources.
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For example, you have to use the latest stable versions of the maintainer
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tools we depend upon, including:
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- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
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- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
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- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
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- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
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- Gperf <http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/>
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- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
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- Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
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- Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>
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- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
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Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
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Valgrind supports your architecture.
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Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful.
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Later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient.
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* LZMA
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The coreutils build procedure can build distribution tarballs with the
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LZMA compression scheme. This feature is so new that it is not
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supported by the latest version of Automake. If you don't care about
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building LZMA tarballs, you can manually remove the string "dist-lzma"
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from configure.ac before bootstrapping.
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If you do want to build LZMA tarballs, you'll need to make sure you
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have the latest stable version of the LZMA Utils
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<http://tukaani.org/lzma/>. Also, you'll need a version of
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Automake that supports the dist-lzma feature, which was added to
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Automake on 2007-10-09 but is not yet available in a stable Automake
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version. So until Automake 1.11 comes out, you'll need to get the
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bleeding-edge Automake version with a command like this:
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$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake
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$ cd automake
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$ ./bootstrap
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$ ./configure
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$ make install
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and build and install that version.
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* First GIT checkout
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You can get a copy of the source repository like this:
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$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
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The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are
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extracted from other source packages:
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$ ./bootstrap
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And there you are! Just
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$ ./configure
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$ make
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$ make check
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At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
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and the GIT master copy:
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$ git diff
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should output no difference.
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Enjoy!
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-----
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Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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