On 30/09/15 00:36, st. drum wrote: > Can someone help me about free software from GNU project. I downloaded some > packages, in this case coreutils > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/coreutils.html , then started browsing > through files and found sources, but after trying to compile any of it it > says mainly that config.h is missing and after that many other. I tried to > run ./bootstrap script, which I found is meant for checking dependencies and > installed all of that, but nothing changed. > > I just want to study the code and modifiy it and run it for myself now, not > interested in any git commiting, I saw alot about it and am not interested in > it now. I will learn git later. Just want to know how to edit code and > compile it without mess. I read all of the README stuff from the project but > eventually haven't figured it out.
Answered already at: http://askubuntu.com/questions/679877/gnu-packages-compiling thanks, Pádraig.
