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.
8 We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the GIT repository.
9 This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more
10 requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources.
11 For example, you have to use the latest stable versions of the maintainer
12 tools we depend upon, including:
14 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
15 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
16 - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
17 - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
18 - Gperf <http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/>
19 - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
20 - Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
21 - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
22 - Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
24 Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
25 Valgrind supports your architecture.
27 Only building the initial full source tree will be a bit painful.
28 Later, a plain `git-pull && make' should be sufficient.
32 Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to check out
33 this package from GIT. The next step is to get other files needed to
34 build, which are extracted from other source packages:
38 And there you are! Just
44 At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
45 and the GIT master copy:
49 should output no difference.
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