From 385e8e8caaf7d5cf6c10a85e29bea52050b026f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?St=C3=A9phane=20Graber?= Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:14:31 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README to mention pkg-config and current configure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Stéphane Graber --- README | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index d5d7e18d8..602f90c10 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -36,17 +36,20 @@ Downloading the current source code: Troubleshooting: - If the ./autogen.sh script shows the following message: "aclocal: not found", - you are likely missing the "automake" package. Make sure it's installed and - try again. + If you get an error message at the autogen.sh or configure stage, make + sure you have, autoconf, automake, pkg-config, make and gcc installed on + your machine. - If the ./configure script gives you the following message: - "configure: error: Please install the libcap development files." - you are likely missing the "libcap-dev" package. The configure script will usually give you hints as to what you are missing, looking for those in your package manager will usually give you the package that you need to install. + Also pay a close attention to the feature summary showed at the end of + the configure run, features are automatically enabled/disabled based on + whether the needed development packages are installed on your machine. + If you want a feature but don't know what to install, force it with + --enable- and look at the error message from configure. + Getting help: when you find you need help, you can check out one of the two -- 2.47.2