These notes intend to help people working on the Git version of this package. * Requirements You need the following packages to build the Git version of GNU cpio. We do not make any efforts to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure that you have the latest stable version. - Automake - Autoconf - M4 - Texinfo - Gnulib - Git * Bootstrapping Obviously, if you are reading these notes, you did manage to clone cpio from Git. The next step is to get other files needed to build, which are extracted from other source packages: 1. Change to the source tree directory cd cpio 2. Run ./bootstrap Once done, proceed as described in the file README (section INSTALLATION). Normally you will have to run bootstrap only once. However, if you intend to hack on GNU cpio, you might need to run it again later. In this case, you will probably want to save some time and bandwidth by avoiding downloading the same files again. If so, create in GNU cpio root directory the file named `.bootstrap' with the following contents: --gnulib-srcdir=$HOME/gnulib --paxutils-srcdir=$HOME/paxutils Replace `$HOME/gnulib' and $HOME/paxutils with the actual directory where the Gnulib and Paxutils sources reside. For more information about `bootstrap', run `bootstrap --help'. * Copyright information Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. ^L Local Variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ^L]*$" version-control: never End: