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authorTomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>2020-03-13 09:30:55 +0100
committerTomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>2020-03-13 09:30:55 +0100
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Adjust README with instructions for package prerequsities
Also remove obsolete static modules instructions
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-
Hello!
Thanks for downloading Linux-PAM.
@@ -7,6 +6,11 @@ NOTES:
How to use it is as follows:
+Please look at the ci/install_dependencies.sh for the necessary
+prerequisite packages to be able to build the Linux-PAM. The script
+is targeted at Debian based Linux distributions so the package
+names and availability might differ on other distributions.
+
If you check out the sources from git, install Autotools and generate
configuration scripts, ensuring you have the minimum packages installed,
the ci scripts may help here:
@@ -54,16 +58,6 @@ WARNING: Running "make xtests" can overwrite configuration data
or make the system insecure/unfunctional for a short time!
Backup all important data before!
-
-If you do not wish to make the modules dynamically loadable, but
-build a static libpam including all PAM modules, you have to call:
-
- ./configure --enable-static-modules --disable-pie
-
-To run the build checks with static modules, you need to run the
-following command: make -C test check && make check
-
-
To regenerate manual pages from the XML source files you need the
docbook-xsl stylesheets in version 1.69.1 or newer, older versions had
a bug which generates a broken layout.