The newly-introduced CONTRIBUTING.md serves the same purposes and lives in the path where most people would look for it.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abolo...@redhat.com> --- README-hacking | 56 -------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 56 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 README-hacking diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking deleted file mode 100644 index 89fa86be30..0000000000 --- a/README-hacking +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ --*- outline -*- - -These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources. -These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball. -See also docs/hacking.html (after building libvirt using the information -included in this file) for more detailed contribution guidelines. - -* Requirements - -We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the GIT repository. -This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more -requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources. -Note the requirements to build the released archive are much less and -are just the requirements of the standard configure && make procedure. -Specific development tools and versions will be checked for and listed by -the bootstrap script. - -Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if -Valgrind supports your architecture. - -While building from a just-cloned source tree may require installing a -few prerequisites, later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient. - -* First GIT checkout - -You can get a copy of the source repository like this: - - $ git clone https://libvirt.org/git/libvirt.git - $ cd libvirt - -We require to have the build directory different than the source directory: - - $ mkdir build && cd build - -The next step is to invoke ../autogen.sh: - - $ ../autogen.sh - -And there you are! Just - - $ make - $ make check - -At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy, -and the GIT master copy: - - $ cd .. - $ git diff - -should output no difference. - -Enjoy! - -Local Variables: -indent-tabs-mode: nil -End: -- 2.25.1
