Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: >>> Thanks for writing that up. >>> Would you care to ensconce it somewhere more permanent? >> How about the attached? > > Thanks! > However, since your instructions are Fedora 8-specific (and hence > guaranteed to be far less useful in a year or two), I hesitate to > put it in this file.
Well they're Fedora specific instructions rather than Fedora 8 specific. But I take your point in that it's not general enough for that file. > Also, you probably didn't realize, but that file > deliberately minimizes mentions of coreutils, because I've used it almost > verbatim in a couple other projects, e.g., idutils. The only varying > part is the list of required tools. I missed that yes. > And even that, ... prompted by recent suggestions from Ed Avis, I've been > thinking about how best to do what he wants (bootstrap-time version/prereq > tests) without compromising generality. Looking at README-hacking, > I think I found a good way: > > have README-hacking refer to a list of files with package-name,min-version > pairs and have bootstrap read that same file. Then bootstrap would > be able to perform tests for the required tools, and README-hacking > would no longer have the per-package-varying list of prerequisites. > > So, whether the list of pairs would go in bootstrap.cfg > or merely be in a separate file and be read by bootstrap.cfg > (former sounds better), I'm not sure... > > Are you interested in doing something like that? Well all missing dependencies are currently reported I think, but it can be minutes into the build before this happens. I'll add a list to bootstrap.conf to give immediate feedback. > Regarding your build recipe, maybe we need a wiki? > New file? Perhaps we need a README-{fedora,debian,solaris,mingw,...} ./bootstrap should just work, but the above files would detail how best to get the prerequisites. Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils