* [PATCH] iptables: Add autoreconf step in INSTALL document.
@ 2009-07-23 13:26 Saikiran Madugula
2009-07-23 15:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Saikiran Madugula @ 2009-07-23 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netfilter-devel; +Cc: Saikiran Madugula
Add autoreconf step in INSTALL document to clarify that one has
to do autoreconf before they can do any ./configure.
Signed-off-by: Saikiran Madugula <hummerbliss@gmail.com>
---
INSTALL | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 4a44989..a1da8ba 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Installation instructions for iptables
iptables uses the well-known configure(autotools) infrastructure.
+ $ autoreconf -vfi
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install
--
1.5.6.3
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* Re: [PATCH] iptables: Add autoreconf step in INSTALL document.
2009-07-23 13:26 [PATCH] iptables: Add autoreconf step in INSTALL document Saikiran Madugula
@ 2009-07-23 15:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jan Engelhardt @ 2009-07-23 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Saikiran Madugula; +Cc: netfilter-devel
On Thursday 2009-07-23 15:26, Saikiran Madugula wrote:
>Add autoreconf step in INSTALL document to clarify that one has
>to do autoreconf before they can do any ./configure.
The INSTALL document is written for users of the tarball, which has the
'configure' script present already.
Developers know what they have to run. (That is to say, I would claim
that other software projects don't tell you to
autoreconf/autogen.sh/bootstraep.sh either.)
So this is not needed IMO.
>@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Installation instructions for iptables
>
> iptables uses the well-known configure(autotools) infrastructure.
>
>+ $ autoreconf -vfi
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> # make install
>--
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