From 0b0d27d0b658f3d2cec206cf4362c25762dc7870 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:40:31 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Describe autotools/libtool/automake version dependency Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers --- README | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index e3800fa..ce25e3a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -44,6 +44,21 @@ supported, with the following exceptions: - Alpha, ia64 and ARM architectures depend on 4.x gcc with atomic builtins support. +For developers using the git tree: + +This source tree is based on the autotools suite from GNU to simplify +portability. Here are some things you should have on your system in order to +compile the git repository tree : + +- GNU autotools (automake >=1.10, autoconf >=2.50, autoheader >=2.50) + (make sure your system wide "automake" points to a recent version!) +- GNU Libtool >=2.2 + (for more information, go to http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) + +If you get the tree from the repository, you will need to use the "bootstrap" +script in the root of the tree. It calls all the GNU tools needed to prepare the +tree configuration. + QUICK START GUIDE ----------------- -- 2.34.1