On 04/12/2013 02:22 PM, Hongxu Chen wrote: > Eric Blake <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 04/12/2013 05:19 AM, Hongxu Chen wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> This question might be a bit silly, but I just cannot build the >>> latest development version of coreutils, which I cloned from >>> >>> git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils.git >>> >>> When I use `autoreconf -fiv`, it complains: >>> >>> autoreconf: Entering directory `.' >>> autoreconf: running: autopoint --force >>> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 >>> aclocal: configure.ac:429: file `m4/cu-progs.m4' does not exist >>> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 >> >> Did you run ./bootstrap first? If not, that's your problem. > > You said it! The `bootstrap' script has updates the gnulib/lib/test/m4 > directories and autoreconf the src directory. > > Sorry for my stupid question. > > But I am wondering whether there is some docs that I can follow to avoid > making more mistakes. > > Thanks so much!
See the "Latest source" section at: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ thanks, Pádraig.
