From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:28:41 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Document git tree dependencies X-Git-Tag: v0.1~172 X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?p=babeltrace.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=efc652bd2576acd5ac3503ae8c98c068dca69d1e Document git tree dependencies Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers --- diff --git a/README b/README index e72ece8a..43ca9aa8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -5,3 +5,19 @@ September 2010 This project provides trace read and write libraries, as well as a trace converter. A plugin can be created for any trace format to allow its conversion to/from another trace format. + + +* For Developers + +This source tree is based on the autotools suite from GNU to simplify +portability. Here are some things you should have on your system in order to +compile the git repository tree : + +- GNU autotools (automake >=1.7, autoconf >=2.50, autoheader >=2.50) + (make sure your system wide "automake" points to a recent version!) +- GNU Libtool + (for more information, go to http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) + +If you get the tree from the repository, you will need to use the "bootstrap" +script in the root of the tree. It calls all the GNU tools needed to prepare the +tree configuration.