Eric Blake <[email protected]> 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.
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.
Dale
