3 These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
4 These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
5 See also HACKING for more detailed coreutils contribution guidelines.
9 We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the GIT repository.
10 This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more
11 requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources.
12 Note the requirements to build the released archive are much less and
13 are just the requirements of the standard ./configure && make procedure.
14 Specific development tools and versions will be checked for and listed by
15 the bootstrap script. See README-prereq for specific notes on obtaining
16 these prerequisite tools.
18 Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
19 Valgrind supports your architecture. See also README-valgrind.
21 While building from a just-cloned source tree may require installing a
22 few prerequisites, later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient.
26 You can get a copy of the source repository like this:
28 $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
31 The next step is to get and check other files needed to build,
32 which are extracted from other source packages:
36 And there you are! Just
38 $ ./configure #[--enable-gcc-warnings]
42 At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
43 and the GIT master copy:
47 should output no difference.
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