Hi Phi,
On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 14:24 +0200, Phi Debian wrote:
> I just git cloned the elfutils.git
>
> How to I build it, to my surprise there is no configure script
> (assuming the clone is not damaged)
>
> My secondary question is assuming I can build what is the process to
> run the test suite?
To my own surprise this isn't documented at all.
I added the attached to the README.
Hope that helps.
Thanks,
Mark
From 04ecad6acd13e7120b171307aa57325b2ec08715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:05:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] README: Add basic build instructions.
Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org>
---
ChangeLog | 4 ++++
README | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 86b19b5..c0034ba 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2017-09-19 Mark Wielaard <m...@klomp.org>
+
+ * README: Add basic build instructions.
+
2017-05-03 Ulf Hermann <ulf.herm...@qt.io>
* configure.ac: Test if symbol versioning is supported.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 9e55d75..0e15bae 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,11 +5,20 @@ The project home is http://elfutils.org/
Releases are published at ftp://sourceware.org/pub/elfutils/
Which can also be found at https://sourceware.org/elfutils/ftp/
+To build a release do: ./configure && make && make check
+Please check the configure summary to make sure all recommended
+features are enabled. There should be no failures after make check.
+
Please reports bugs at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
The current elfutils source code can be checked out with
git clone git://sourceware.org/git/elfutils.git
+To build a git checkout do:
+ autoreconf -i -f && \
+ ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode && \
+ make && make check
+
The developer mailinglist to send patches to is
elfutils-devel@sourceware.org.
https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/
--
1.8.3.1
