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

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Fri May 15 09:09:50 UTC 2020


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 at 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




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