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| author | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2019-12-17 13:36:26 -0500 |
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| committer | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2019-12-17 15:06:28 -0500 |
| commit | e4499a1fb51d560d9a29ba75176a7cb2b2c65b03 (patch) | |
| tree | c2d3741787a7e7f1fc9362777fcb219e51d3c820 /README.git | |
| parent | 57b043c7fb6a220b8cf0f022e4161bbe87f2b0f1 (diff) | |
| download | make-git-e4499a1fb51d560d9a29ba75176a7cb2b2c65b03.tar.gz | |
* Makefile.am: Build lzip package instead of bzip2
* README.git: Mention changed requirements.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -88,7 +88,11 @@ need to install the following extra software: * GCC (Clang's GCC emulation is not sufficient) * GNU make (POSIX make is not sufficient) -And any tools that those utilities require (GNU m4, Perl, etc.) +And any tools that those utilities require (GNU m4, etc.) + +To run the tests you must install Perl. + +To build a release you'll need to install lzip. GNU make requires gnulib to provide some facilities. If you want to maintain a local installation of gnulib you can set GNULIB_SRCDIR to point to it. @@ -166,16 +170,16 @@ run: and, if you like: - $ make dist-bzip2 + $ make dist-lzip Even better, you should run this: $ make distcheck -Which will build both .gz and .bz2 package files, then unpack them into -a temporary location, try to build them, and repack them, verifying that -everything works, you get the same results, _and_ no extraneous files -are left over after the "distclean" rule. +Which will build both .gz and .lz package files, then unpack one into a +temporary location, try to build it and repack it, then verifying that +everything works, you get the same results, _and_ no extraneous files are +left over after the "distclean" rule. This package can be unpacked and built to give a "normal" (non-maintainer mode) result. |