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* README-hacking: Add a little more high level info and merge notes on specific developer prerequisites into README-prereq * README-prereq: Remove the Fedora 8 specific information and generalize the information to be applicable to any system.
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This gives some notes on obtaining the tools required for development.
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I.E. the tools checked for by the bootstrap script and include:
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- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
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- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
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- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
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- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
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- Git <http://git.or.cz/>
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- Gperf <http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/>
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- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
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- Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
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- Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>
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- Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
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- Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
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Note please try to install/build official packages for your system.
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If these are not available then one can make them available only to
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the coreutils build using the following instructions. Even if the
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official packages for your system are too old, please install them
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as they may be required to build the newer versions.
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* autoconf *
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# Note Autoconf 2.62 or newer is needed to build automake-1.11
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git clone --depth=1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf.git
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git checkout v2.62
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autoreconf -vi
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./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
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make install
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* automake *
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# Note help2man is required to build automake fully
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git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git
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cd automake
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git checkout -b branch-1.11 --track origin/branch-1.11
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./bootstrap
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./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
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make install
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coreutils uses XZ utils (successor to LZMA) to create
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a compressed distribution tarball. Using this feature of Automake
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requires version 1.10a or newer, as well as the xz program itself.
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* xz *
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git clone git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git
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cd xz
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./autogen.sh
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./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
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make install
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Now we can build coreutils as described in README-hacking
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as long as $PATH starts with $HOME/coreutils/deps/bin, which
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one can set for the current shell like:
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$ export PATH=$HOME/coreutils/deps/bin:$PATH
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