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| author | Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 2002-02-28 00:44:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 2002-02-28 00:44:54 +0000 |
| commit | 87d0de6a2a4f5b46f66aea551f315181934e55d2 (patch) | |
| tree | b4b469872bb7d436d6c6a2d0a1b6ebf2f9ba718b | |
| parent | 98777fd4ed8cd886b0892d4084da92efc23d776e (diff) | |
| download | acl-87d0de6a2a4f5b46f66aea551f315181934e55d2.tar.gz | |
add missing file describing howto install the package.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/INSTALL | 48 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/Makefile | 2 |
2 files changed, 49 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/INSTALL b/doc/INSTALL index e69de29..de99605 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL +++ b/doc/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +This document describes how to configure and build the extended +attribute library and utility from source, and how to install them. + +0. If you have the binary rpm, simply install it and skip to step 2 (below). + The rpm command to do this is: + # rpm -Uvh acl + + The Debian command to do this is: + # dpkg -i acl + or, if you have apt configured (don't need the binary package): + # apt-get install acl + +1. Configure, build and install the package + + The "acl" package uses autoconf/configure and expects a GNU build + environment (your platform must at least have both autoconf and gmake). + + If you just want to spin an RPM and/or tar file, use the Makepkgs + script in the top level directory. This will configure and build + the package and leave binary and src RPMs in the build/rpm + directory. It will also leave a tar file in the build/tar + directory. + + # ./Makepkgs verbose + + If you want to build the package and install it manually, use the + following steps: + + # make configure (or run autoconf; ./configure) + # make + # su root + # make install install-lib + + Note that there are so many "install" variants out there that we + wrote our own script (see "install-sh" in the top level directory). + + If you wish to turn off debugging asserts in the command build and + turn on the optimizer then set the shell environment variables: + + OPTIMIZER=-O + DEBUG=-DNDEBUG + + before running make configure or Makepkgs. + +2. How to Contribute + + See the README file in this directory for details about how to + contribute to the Linux access control lists project. diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile index ff3e25f..4f9319b 100644 --- a/doc/Makefile +++ b/doc/Makefile @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ TOPDIR = .. include $(TOPDIR)/include/builddefs -LSRCFILES = extensions.txt libacl.txt TODO PORTING CHANGES LICENSE +LSRCFILES = extensions.txt libacl.txt TODO PORTING CHANGES LICENSE INSTALL LDIRT = *.gz default: CHANGES.gz |