From 8ad9aaaf3fcc313069e2ecfb395936ae6c4291b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:41:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Describe autotools/libtool/automake version dependency Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers --- README | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index d8d38d884..1d736dc79 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -24,6 +24,22 @@ REQUIREMENTS: * Debian/Ubuntu package: libpopt-dev +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. + + INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: - Download, compile and install the prerequisites. -- 2.34.1