From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2267543616229722994==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [Powertop] [PATCH UPDATED] powertop: update build instructions Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:50:25 -0700 Message-ID: <53C2D4F1.9060002@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: 20140713174100.GA15447@sara.bahnhof.se To: powertop@lists.01.org List-ID: --===============2267543616229722994== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 7/13/2014 10:41 AM, Magnus Fromreide wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 02:07:54PM +0600, Mohammad Merajul Islam Molla wr= ote: >> update powertop build instuctions in README file. > > Should the README file reflect the repository code or the distributed > packages? > > Is it not part of distribution package generation to run autogen so that > the old README file was fine, the only change one could imagine is adding > a README.hacking that states that you might need to run autogen.sh > before the commit. it is supposed to be part of distribution package generation, but we've had= a few slipups in that regard in recent releases unfortunately. I more imagine a section in the readme than a second file, I mean, it's lik= e one extra paragraph --===============2267543616229722994==--