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README-hacking change for LZMA
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
README-hacking change for LZMA |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:00:50 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
The dist-lzma change means that developers now need a bleeding-edge
version of Automake along with the LZMA SDK. Here's a change to
README-hacking to try to document this.
2007-10-22 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
* README-hacking: Describe how to build with LZMA.
diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 3539d73..77464bd 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -27,6 +27,29 @@ Valgrind supports your architecture.
Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful.
Later, a plain `git-pull && make' should be sufficient.
+* LZMA
+
+The coreutils build procedure can build distribution tarballs with the
+LZMA compression scheme. This feature is so new that it is not
+supported by the latest version of Automake. If you don't care about
+building LZMA tarballs, you can manually remove the string "dist-lzma"
+from configure.ac before bootstrapping.
+
+If you do want to build LZMA tarballs, you'll need to make sure you
+have the latest stable version of the LZMA SDK
+<http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html>. Also, you'll need a version of
+Automake that supports the dist-lzma feature, which was added to
+Automake on 2007-10-09 but is not yet available in a stable Automake
+version. So until Automake 1.11 comes out, you'll need to get the
+bleeding-edge Automake version with a command like this:
+
+ $ cvs -d sources.redhat.com:/cvs/automake co automake
+ $ ./bootstrap
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make install
+
+and build and install that version.
+
* First GIT checkout
Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
- README-hacking change for LZMA,
Paul Eggert <=