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[PATCH] doc: Add a cautionary note
From: |
Mihir Mehta |
Subject: |
[PATCH] doc: Add a cautionary note |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:46:19 -0500 |
I ran into an issue building coreutils with the "bison++" installed,
which is provided by my GNU/Linux distribution. Since this is an issue
which is not detected by the bootstrap or configure scripts, I noted the
incompatibility for users of similar distributions.
---
README-prereq | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
index fdf89fecd..9313a2220 100644
--- a/README-prereq
+++ b/README-prereq
@@ -13,8 +13,11 @@ I.e., the tools checked for by the bootstrap script and
include:
- Tar <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
- Texinfo <https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
-Note please try to install/build official packages for your system.
-If these programs are not available use the following instructions
+Note: please try to install/build official packages for your system.
+Also, if using Debian or a derived GNU/Linux distribution, please
+install the bison package, since the suggested bison++ package is
+incompatible with building coreutils. If official packages are not
+available for your system, use the following instructions
to build them and install the results into a directory that you will
then use when building this package.
--
2.17.1
- [PATCH] doc: Add a cautionary note,
Mihir Mehta <=