Alexander Kahl wrote: > I tried coreutils from CVS which gave me the following error: > > sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
The CVS depot is no longer used by the development team. While this is still a rather recent change it has already grown stale and no longer builds from source. It is now deprecated and so no effort is being spent to keep it going. Eventually I expect it to be disabled entirely. > After that I tried coreutils from GIT and got those errors: Create a git clone like this: git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils Coreutils uses gnulib along with other projects and so I find it convenient to clone gnulib in a sibling directory next to coreutils where it can be shared by several projects. git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib Then in the coreutils directory bootstrap it this way. (I don't usually build the translations in a development copy.) ./bootstrap --skip-po --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib But! Before doing this look in the README-hacking file. *BEFORE* building coreutils from development sources you will need to build all of the required build dependencies. A typical GNU/Linux system will likely have most of the normal dependencies such as gcc and bison and others as documented in the README-hacking file. But among the likely candidates for packages that will need special treatment are: autoconf-2.61 automake-git-70bca13b gettext-0.16.1 m4-1.4.8 Those are the minimum version levels that work for me to build coreutils at this time. In particular you must get the current automake from git commit 70bca13b or later. git clone git://sources.redhat.com/git/automake The need for all of these steps are what make the coreutils snapshots quite useful. They are self-contained and do not need all of the development tools available. http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-322-b6904.tar.gz 8.4M http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-322-b6904.tar.gz.sig http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-322-b6904.tar.lzma 3.5M http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-322-b6904.tar.lzma.sig Hope that helps. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
