1 This gives some notes on obtaining the tools required for development.
2 I.E. the tools checked for by the bootstrap script and include:
4 - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
5 - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
6 - Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
7 - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
8 - Git <http://git.or.cz/>
9 - Gperf <http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/>
10 - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
11 - Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
12 - Rsync <http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/>
13 - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
14 - Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
16 Note please try to install/build official packages for your system.
17 If these are not available then one can make them available only to
18 the coreutils build using the following instructions. Even if the
19 official packages for your system are too old, please install them
20 as they may be required to build the newer versions. The examples
21 below build into $HOME/coreutils/deps/, so first ensure that your
22 $PATH is set correctly, which can be done for the current shell like:
24 export PATH=$HOME/coreutils/deps/bin:$PATH
28 # Note Autoconf 2.62 or newer is needed to build automake-1.11
29 git clone --depth=1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf.git
32 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
37 # Note help2man is required to build automake fully
38 git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git
40 git checkout -b branch-1.11 --track origin/branch-1.11
42 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
45 coreutils uses XZ utils (successor to LZMA) to create
46 a compressed distribution tarball. Using this feature of Automake
47 requires version 1.10a or newer, as well as the xz program itself.
51 git clone git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git
54 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
57 Now one can build coreutils as described in README-hacking.