Re: How to compile the git mirror of coreutils?

[Hongxu Chen]

Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:

> 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/

Many Thanks.

I really should have read this page carefully and take a
look at the docs inside the source code root directory.

> thanks,
> Pádraig.

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Regards,
Hongxu Chen