From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:05:49 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: maint: update the instructions for building prerequisites
X-Git-Tag: v8.22~63
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=15fca2a02e38d69915c52ef41eee3c7d52b67f3e;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

maint: update the instructions for building prerequisites

* README-prereq: Update as per the latest required versions
in bootstrap.conf.  Also add a missing cd command.
Reported by Aaron Davies
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/15612
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diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
index 66688dcf7c..0232d9c967 100644
--- a/README-prereq
+++ b/README-prereq
@@ -29,9 +29,12 @@ set correctly by running this command:
 
 * autoconf *
 
-  # Note Autoconf 2.62 or newer is needed to build automake-1.11.1
+  # Note Autoconf 2.62 or newer is needed to build automake-1.11.2
+  # but we specify 2.64 here as that's what coreutils requires.
+  # Please use the latest stable release version as indicated by git tags.
   git clone --depth=1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf.git
-  git checkout v2.62
+  cd autoconf
+  git checkout v2.64
   autoreconf -vi
   ./configure --prefix=$prefix
   make install
@@ -41,7 +44,7 @@ set correctly by running this command:
   # Note help2man is required to build automake fully
   git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git
   cd automake
-  git checkout v1.11.1
+  git checkout v1.11.2
   ./bootstrap
   ./configure --prefix=$prefix
   make install