1 This gives some notes on obtaining the tools required for development.
2 I.E. the tools checked for by the bootstrap script and include:
4 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
5 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
6 - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
7 - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
8 - Git <http://git.or.cz/>
9 - Gperf <http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/>
10 - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
11 - Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>
12 - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
14 Note please try to install/build official packages for your system.
15 If these programs are not available use the following instructions
16 to build them and install the results into a directory that you will
17 then use when building this package.
19 Even if the official version of a package for your system is too old,
20 please install it, as it may be required to build the newer versions.
21 The examples below install into $HOME/coreutils/deps/, so if you are
22 going to follow these instructions, first ensure that your $PATH is
23 set correctly by running this command:
25 prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
26 export PATH=$prefix/bin:$PATH
30 # Note Autoconf 2.62 or newer is needed to build automake-1.11.1
31 git clone --depth=1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf.git
34 ./configure --prefix=$prefix
39 # Note help2man is required to build automake fully
40 git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git
44 ./configure --prefix=$prefix
47 Now you can build this package as described in README-hacking.