[lttng-dev] [PATCH lttv] Add build instructions for git tree pulls and use more standard formatting

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Thibault, Daniel (Daniel.Thibault at drdc-rddc.gc.ca) wrote:
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 12:48:53 -0700
> From: Vomlehn <vomlehnd at amazon.com>
> 
> -- ./configure
> -- make
> -- make install
> +  $ ./configure
> +  $ make
> +  $ make install
> +
> +To compile the source tree from a git checkout, use:
> +
> +  $ autoreconf
> +  $ automake --add-missing --gnu
> +  $ make
> +  $ make install
>  
>  After running ./configure, you can also go in specific subdirectories and
>  use make, make install.
> ------------------------------
> 
>    Actually, in each instance of 'make install', you'll need to use 'sudo make install'.

(as root)
# make install

would be the proper way to document this.

sudo is just one way to gain root privileges. "su" can be used on many
distributions for this too. Also, if a configure --prefix is used to
target a user-writeable directory, root is not required (but it's
generally not the case).

Thanks,

Mathieu


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