Re: Confused about source code of coreutils

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:

> But!  Before doing this look in the README-hacking file.  *BEFORE*
> building coreutils from development sources you will need to build all
> of the required build dependencies.

Thanks for mentioning that; I installed the following patch into
<http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> to make the point clearer.

--- coreutils.html      15 Aug 2007 08:26:52 -0000      1.18
+++ coreutils.html      12 Oct 2007 22:54:30 -0000      1.19
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ can retrieve the bleeding-edge version w
 <pre><samp>git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
 </samp></pre>
 
+The bleeding-edge version contains a file <samp>README-hacking</samp>
+that contains instructions for building from bleeding-edge sources.
 Please note that we do not suggest using test versions of Coreutils
 for production use.
 </p>