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| author | Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> | 2013-07-11 16:07:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> | 2013-07-11 16:12:18 -0700 |
| commit | f7f344f1b099732908f47232858e68518bb4393a (patch) | |
| tree | 99124b183d362561b77236792929652df8ecefbe /README.markdown | |
| parent | ab4e74cc38359a1e909febe31e8440a2908bd10e (diff) | |
Improve build instructions
Make it clear that when building directly from the Git tree
the configure script must be manually generated by running the
autogen.sh script. This requires that the GNU autotools packages
be installed for your distribution.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#1448
Diffstat (limited to 'README.markdown')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.markdown | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index 81535aa22..49c7f21ba 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal modification. This can be particularly useful when you want to track -upstream Solaris development closely and don’t want the overhead of +upstream Solaris development closely and do not want the overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux primitives. @@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ To build packages for your distribution: $ ./configure $ make pkg +If you are building directly from the git tree and not an officially +released tarball you will need to generate the configure script. +This can be done by executing the autogen.sh script after installing +the GNU autotools for your distribution. + To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin compilation: |