I thouhght that's what the 'bootstrap' script is for. I mean - it includes autoreconf -i plus creation of config directory... So maybe the doc should say "use the bootstrap script" instead of calling users to run autoreconf -i ...
Amit Margalit IBM XIV - Storage Reinvented XIV-NAS Development Team Tel. 03-689-7774 Fax. 03-689-7230 From: Alexandre Montplaisir <alexmon...@voxpopuli.im> To: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org Cc: Vomlehn <vomle...@amazon.com> Date: 08/08/2013 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] [PATCH lttv] Add build instructions for git tree pulls and use more standard formatting On 13-08-07 03:48 PM, Vomlehn wrote: > If the source is obtained directly from git, the file "configure" must be > built with the autoconf tools. In addition, example shell commands are > traditionally preceeded with a "$" instead of a "-", so this convention > is used. > --- > README | 13 ++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/README b/README > index 98849b3..ac28f9e 100644 > --- a/README > +++ b/README > @@ -31,9 +31,16 @@ libc6 development librairies > > To compile the source tree from a tarball, simply follow these steps : > > -- ./configure > -- make > -- make install > + $ ./configure > + $ make > + $ make install > + > +To compile the source tree from a git checkout, use: > + > + $ autoreconf > + $ automake --add-missing --gnu You should be able to use "autoreconf -i" instead of those two commands. It avoids the need to run autoconf, automake etc. manually. > + $ make > + $ make install As was mentioned in the other thread, this should be "# make install", since with the default configure options, it will install in /usr/local, and only root can write there. Cheers, Alex > > After running ./configure, you can also go in specific subdirectories and > use make, make install. _______________________________________________ lttng-dev mailing list lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev
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