Re: bootstrap failed

[Pádraig Brady]

On 28/12/09 05:05, Liu Jie wrote:
> Hi Pádraig,
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> Now I can compile coreutils by building autoconf-2.6.2 and automake-1.11
> packages instead of checking out them from Git repoz.

Thanks for the feedback.
I'll clarify the instructions with the following:

From 6276bf836960ccea2abb2b28ad90c346bcb63205 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf-8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:01:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] maint: improve the info about $PATH in README-prereq

* README-prereq: It wasn't obvious that the $PATH should
be set before building any of the prerequisite packages,
so move that information up.
---
 README-prereq |   11 ++++++-----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
index 686160a..54cdb9c 100644
--- a/README-prereq
+++ b/README-prereq
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ Note please try to install/build official packages for your 
system.
 If these are not available then one can make them available only to
 the coreutils build using the following instructions.  Even if the
 official packages for your system are too old, please install them
-as they may be required to build the newer versions.
+as they may be required to build the newer versions.  The examples
+below build into $HOME/coreutils/deps/, so first ensure that your
+$PATH is set correctly, which can be done for the current shell like:
+
+  export PATH=$HOME/coreutils/deps/bin:$PATH

 * autoconf *

@@ -50,7 +54,4 @@ requires version 1.10a or newer, as well as the xz program 
itself.
   ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
   make install

-Now we can build coreutils as described in README-hacking
-as long as $PATH starts with $HOME/coreutils/deps/bin, which
-one can set for the current shell like:
-  $ export PATH=$HOME/coreutils/deps/bin:$PATH
+Now one can build coreutils as described in README-hacking.
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