Dogcows Code - chaz/tar/blob - README-hacking

   1 These notes intend to help people working on the Git version of
   2 this package.
   3
   4 * Requirements
   5
   6 You need the following packages to build the Git version of GNU
   7 tar.  We do not make any efforts to accommodate older versions of
   8 these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable
   9 version.
  10
  11 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
  12 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
  13 - M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
  14 - Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
  15 - Gnulib <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib>
  16 - Git <http://git.or.cz>
  17
  18 * Bootstrapping
  19
  20 Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to clone
  21 tar from Git. The next step is to get other files needed to build,
  22 which are extracted from other source packages:
  23
  24 1. Change to the source tree directory
  25
  26    cd tar
  27
  28 2. Run
  29
  30    ./bootstrap
  31
  32 Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section
  33 INSTALLATION).
  34
  35 Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you
  36 intend to hack on GNU tar, you might need to run it again later. In
  37 this case, you will probably want to save some time and bandwidth by
  38 avoiding downloading the same files again. If so, create in GNU tar
  39 root directory the file named `.bootstrap' with the following
  40 contents:
  41
  42    --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/gnulib
  43
  44 Replace `$HOME/gnulib' with the actual directory where the Gnulib
  45 sources reside.
  46
  47 For more information about `bootstrap', run `bootstrap --help'.
  48
  49 \f
  50 * Copyright information
  51
  52  Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  53
  54  Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
  55  of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
  56  copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
  57  thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
  58
  59  Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
  60  of this document, or of portions of it,
  61  under the above conditions, provided also that they
  62  carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
  63
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