1 This document describes how to configure and build the extended
2 attribute library and utility from source, and how to install them.
4 0. If you have the binary rpm, simply install it and skip to step 2 (below).
5 The rpm command to do this is:
8 The Debian command to do this is:
10 or, if you have apt configured (don't need the binary package):
11 # apt-get install attr
13 1. Configure, build and install the package
15 The "attr" package uses autoconf/configure and expects a GNU build
16 environment (your platform must at least have both autoconf and gmake).
18 If you just want to spin an RPM and/or tar file, use the Makepkgs
19 script in the top level directory. This will configure and build
20 the package and leave binary and src RPMs in the build/rpm
21 directory. It will also leave a tar file in the build/tar
26 If you want to build the package and install it manually, use the
29 # make configure (or run autoconf; ./configure)
32 # make install install-lib
34 Note that there are so many "install" variants out there that we
35 wrote our own script (see "install-sh" in the top level directory).
37 If you wish to turn off debugging asserts in the command build and
38 turn on the optimizer then set the shell environment variables:
43 before running make configure or Makepkgs.
47 See the README file in this directory for details about how to
48 contribute to the Linux extended attributes project.