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common: update README to list build dependencies

Message ID 1416282547-7464-1-git-send-email-smfrench@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Steve French Nov. 18, 2014, 3:49 a.m. UTC
Add sample list of packages (dependencies) required to build XFSTESTS
and add a step to the instructions to mention creating the test
user needed for some of the ACL tests.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
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 README | 6 ++++++
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 8a362bd..0c9449a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -4,8 +4,14 @@  _______________________
 
 Building Linux:
 	- cd into the xfstests directory
+	- install prerequisite packages
+	  For example, for Ubuntu:
+		"sudo apt-get install xfslibs-dev uuid-dev libtool e2fsprogs
+		 automake gcc libuuid1 quota attr libattr1-dev
+		 libacl1-dev libaio-dev xfsprogs libgdbm-dev gawk fio dbench"
 	- run make
 	- run make install
+	- create fsgqa test user ("sudo useradd fsgqa")
 	
 Building IRIX:
 	- cd into the xfstests directory