On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:57:09 AM Greg Elin wrote:
Is the common file "INSTALL.txt" or "BUILD.txt"?
There is no '.txt'. There is a table on this page that states the files that
are normally present/expected in opensource software:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/README
So, the build instructions would normally go into INSTALL which is expected to
live in the top level directory.
-Steve
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Steve Grubb
<sgrubb(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 06:51:35 AM Greg Elin wrote:
> > It was a fair amount of web searching and a couple of hours of trying to
> > work this out. It seemed a odd that the information was so scarce and
> > I'd
> > need install and enable EPEL and so much in order to make. I guess if
>
> this
>
> > is the case, I would have just expected more warning from SSG docs.
>
> Typically (or at least one following gnu standards) would have an INSTALL
> file
> that describes how to build from source.
>
> > So I want to make sure I am actually doing this right and have a little
> > discussion before creating a pull request.
>
> Failing to find a INSTALL file, I'd just read the spec file. It clearly
> spells
> out the build requirements and build steps. Those should be documented
> into an
> INSTALL file.
>
> -Steve