| Message ID | 1490991738-29637-1-git-send-email-linda.knippers@hpe.com (mailing list archive) |
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hpe.com> wrote: > Rather than discover the required packages as a result > of configure failures, provide some hints in advance. > Perhaps we should just point people to the "BuildRequires" lines in: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/blob/master/ndctl.spec.in That's where the list of build dependencies is kept up to date. I'd rather not track it in two places.
On 03/31/2017 04:39 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hpe.com> wrote: >> Rather than discover the required packages as a result >> of configure failures, provide some hints in advance. >> > > Perhaps we should just point people to the "BuildRequires" lines in: > > https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/blob/master/ndctl.spec.in > > That's where the list of build dependencies is kept up to date. I'd > rather not track it in two places. > Yes, that probably would be better. I'll resend something. -- ljk
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 38fc050..e31fab4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ Build `make check` `sudo make install` +There are a number of packages required for the build steps that may not be installed by default. These will be found during the first two steps. + +While not a complete list, the packages required to build on Fedora include: +autogen, libtool, asciidoc, xmlto, kmod-devel, systemd-devel,libuuid-devel, json-c-devel +The OpenSUSE package list is similar. + Documentation ============= See the latest documentation for the NVDIMM kernel sub-system here:
Rather than discover the required packages as a result of configure failures, provide some hints in advance. Signed-off-by: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hpe.com> --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)