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Re: How to compile the git mirror of coreutils?
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: How to compile the git mirror of coreutils? |
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Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:04:21 +0100 |
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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.