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>
>
> 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?
Michal
1: https://libvirt.org/compiling.html