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authorAkim Demaille <akim@lrde.epita.fr>2015-01-12 12:11:53 +0100
committerAkim Demaille <akim@lrde.epita.fr>2015-01-12 12:11:53 +0100
commitd72642d6915dbecd28609d307ef4676d1d5ab448 (patch)
tree1f5056611a16e4d1ec740082c9b679f5953733c3
parent9a91e7f24626da71bb4b5f0bd76159f34ba2b6f6 (diff)
downloadbison-d72642d6915dbecd28609d307ef4676d1d5ab448.tar.gz
package: a bit of trouble shooting indications
* README-hacking: here.
-rw-r--r--README-hacking8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 4b773745..25e4ef34 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -103,15 +103,17 @@ to perform the first checkout of the submodules, run
$ git submodule update --init
-Git submodule support is weak before versions 1.6 and later, you
-should probably upgrade Git if your version is older.
+Git submodule support is weak before versions 1.6 and later, upgrade Git if
+your version is older.
The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are
extracted from other source packages:
$ ./bootstrap
-And there you are! Just
+If it fails with missing symbols (e.g., "error: possibly undefined macro:
+AC_PROG_GNU_M4"), you are likely to have forgotten the submodule
+initialization part. Otherwise, there you are! Just
$ ./configure
$ make