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[Vincent Torri]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org>wrote:

> Vincent Torri <vincent.torri at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Vincent Torri <vincent.torri at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Hey,
> >> >
> >> > In http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/devel.html one can see, in the
> >> > building steps, twice 'make'. Imho, 2 things are missing: the
> generation
> >> of
> >> > the configure script (autoreconf ?) and the launch of the configure
> >> script
> >> > itself
> >>
> >> The configure script is generated, and launched, by the first call to
> >> 'make'.  Try the commands and you will see..
> >
> >
> > i haven't tried, actually. There is no Makefile. Does it mean that
> > GNUMakefile is used by default, as well as Makefile (if GNU make is
> used).
> > If so, it means that it is not portable.
>
> Yes, a GNUmakefile is used.  And yes, we require that people building
> GnuTLS from git sources uses GNU make.  The list of required tools for
> developers are explained in README-alpha, see below.
>
> Note that users building from *.tar.bz2 do not need to have all these
> tools installed, and do not need GNU make.  So I'd claim that GnuTLS is
> portable.
>
> - Make <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
> - Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
> - Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
> - Libtool <http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/>
> - Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
> - Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
> - help2man <http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/>
> - Tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
> - Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
> - Texlive & epsf <http://www.tug.org/texlive/> (for PDF manual)
> - CVS <http://www.gnu.org/software/cvs/> (for gettext autopoint)
> - GTK-DOC <http://www.gtk.org/gtk-doc/> (for API manual)
> - Git <http://git.or.cz/>
> - Perl <http://www.cpan.org/>
> - Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> (optional)
> - libgcrypt <http://www.gnupg.org/>
> - Guile <http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/>
> - Gaa <http://gaa.sf.net> (optional)
> - libtasn1 <http://josefsson.org/libtasn1/> (optional)
> - datefudge <packages.debian.org/datefudge> (optional)
>

ok. Thank you

Vincent Torri
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