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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL b/doc/INSTALL deleted file mode 100644 index 9f9f45f..0000000 --- a/doc/INSTALL +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +0,0 @@ -This document describes how to configure and build the extended -attribute library and utility from source, and how to install them. - -0. If you have the binary rpm, simply install it and skip to step 2 (below). - The rpm command to do this is: - # rpm -Uvh attr - - The Debian command to do this is: - # dpkg -i attr - or, if you have apt configured (don't need the binary package): - # apt-get install attr - -1. Configure, build and install the package - - The "attr" package uses autoconf/configure and expects a GNU build - environment (your platform must at least have both autoconf and gmake). - - If you just want to spin an RPM and/or tar file, use the Makepkgs - script in the top level directory. This will configure and build - the package and leave binary and src RPMs in the build/rpm - directory. It will also leave a tar file in the build/tar - directory. - - # ./Makepkgs verbose - - If you want to build the package and install it manually, use the - following steps: - - # make configure (or run autoreconf; ./configure) - # make - # su root - # make install install-lib - - Note that there are so many "install" variants out there that we - wrote our own script (see "install-sh" in the top level directory). - - If you wish to turn off debugging asserts in the command build and - turn on the optimizer then set the shell environment variables: - - OPTIMIZER=-O - DEBUG=-DNDEBUG - - before running make configure or Makepkgs. - -2. How to Contribute - - See the README file in this directory for details about how to - contribute to the Linux extended attributes project. |