Jim Meyering wrote: > Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes: >> >>>> A few tools are required to build coreutils from a git checkout, but >>>> not checked in a friendly way. >>> The newer automake-1.10a is actually required. >> Ah, ok, it could do with a comment because at first it appears that 1.10.1 >> should be newer than 1.10a. > > That's a common misconception. > When in doubt, use sort -V from the latest coreutils: > > $ printf 'automake-1.10%s\n' .1 a|sort -V > automake-1.10.1 > automake-1.10a > > That demonstrates 1.10a is considered the newer version.
Just some notes on the dependencies are they're currently a little bleeding edge. This stuff is second nature to me, though I know it gives lots of people conniptions. Note I try to keep everything on my system packaged, but automake-1.10a is not released so you need to get from git. So here is a log of how I just built the latest coreutils repo on my Fedora 8 machine: $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git $ (cd automake && ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps) configure: error: Autoconf 2.61a-341 or better is required. # rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm emacs is needed by autoconf-2.63-1.fc8.noarch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79031 # yum install emacs #20MB # rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/autoconf-2.63-1.fc10.src.rpm # rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/autoconf-2.63-1.fc8.noarch.rpm $ (cd automake && make install) WARNING: `help2man' is missing on your system. You should only need it if make[1]: *** [automake-1.10a.1] Error 1 # yum install help2man $ (cd automake && make install) $ cd coreutils $ rm -Rf gnulib #pickup latest gnulib $ ./bootstrap $ ./configure $ make cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
