Re: [PATCH] README: Replace "configure" with "autogen.sh" for correct installation

On 5/15/20 11:01 AM, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 16:51:28 +0800, Yi Wang wrote: > > From: LiaoPingfang <liao.pingfang(a)zte.com.cn&gt; > > > > First of all, there is no "configure" file. > > We need use autogen.sh at first to create "configure" file. > > Then in autogen.sh "configure" will be executed according to > > user as root or non-root. > > NACK, autogen needs to be run when running from a git checkout, but is > not present when building from a tarball. > > You can modify that statement but blankly stating that autogen needs to > be run is wrong. Well, I guess we need two sections. Thing is, README serves two goals since we switched to gitlab. The first one, the old one - README as part of release tarball, but it also gained new purpose - landing webpage for developers who browse gitlab (that is why we have images in the .rst). Therefore, what we should do is to have a section that covers "building from git" and another one "building from a tarball". Note that we already cover these in [1], so maybe after all drop all compile info in favour of the link?