From 55c8794d11d2e210aa567306049d2ea34754163b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 17:36:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] hacking: simplify documentation of bootstrapping process * HACKING (Working with git): Do not suggest that, to ensure the bootstrapping process is performed with the latest autotools, the developer could explicitly pass $AUTOCONF and $AUTOM4TE in the environment to the ./bootstrap and ./configure invocations: that is a little tricky and quite fragile. Instead, suggest to just put modern-enough version of the autotools early in PATH. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- HACKING | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 2e74d9a2a..bb7faadc5 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -100,12 +100,8 @@ tree, so the resulting files (aclocal.m4 and Makefile.in) should be the same as you would get if you install this version of automake and use it to generate those files. Be sure to have the - latest stable version of Autoconf installed. If such version is - not installed as "autoconf", pass it explicitly (along with the - accompanying "autom4te") when calling 'bootstrap' and 'configure'. - For example: - $ AUTOCONF=autoconf2.68 AUTOM4TE=autom4te2.68 ./bootstrap - $ ./configure AUTOCONF=autoconf2.68 AUTOM4TE=autom4te2.68 + latest stable version of Autoconf installed and available early + in your PATH. * Dependent files aclocal.m4, configure and Makefile.in in all directories should be up to date in the git repository, so that -- 2.47.2