3 These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
4 These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.
5 See also HACKING for more detailed libvirt contribution guidelines.
9 We've opted to keep only the highest-level sources in the GIT repository.
10 This eases our maintenance burden, (fewer merges etc.), but imposes more
11 requirements on anyone wishing to build from the just-checked-out sources.
12 Note the requirements to build the released archive are much less and
13 are just the requirements of the standard ./configure && make procedure.
14 Specific development tools and versions will be checked for and listed by
17 Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
18 Valgrind supports your architecture. See also README-valgrind.
20 While building from a just-cloned source tree may require installing a
21 few prerequisites, later, a plain `git pull && make' should be sufficient.
25 You can get a copy of the source repository like this:
27 $ git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt
30 As an optional step, if you already have a copy of the gnulib git
31 repository on your hard drive, then you can use it as a reference to
32 reduce download time and disk space requirements:
34 $ export GNULIB_SRCDIR=/path/to/gnulib
36 The next step is to get all required pieces from gnulib,
37 to run autoreconf, and to invoke ./configure:
41 And there you are! Just
46 At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy,
47 and the GIT master copy:
51 should output no difference.