Re: How to compile the git mirror of coreutils?

[Pádraig Brady]

On 04/12/2013 02:22 PM, Hongxu Chen wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 04/12/2013 05:19 AM, Hongxu Chen wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>>   This question might be a bit silly, but I just cannot build the
>>>   latest development version of coreutils, which I cloned from
>>>
>>>       git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils.git
>>>
>>>   When I use `autoreconf -fiv`, it complains:
>>>
>>>   autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>>>   autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
>>>   autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
>>>   aclocal: configure.ac:429: file `m4/cu-progs.m4' does not exist
>>>   autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
>>
>> Did you run ./bootstrap first?  If not, that's your problem.
> 
> You said it! The `bootstrap' script has updates the gnulib/lib/test/m4
> directories and autoreconf the src directory.
>
> Sorry for my stupid question.
>
> But I am wondering whether there is some docs that I can follow to avoid
> making more mistakes.
>
> Thanks so much!

See the "Latest source" section at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

thanks,
Pádraig.