bbonev
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3 years ago @slicer69 I am sorry for the confusion, most of which was caused, because I didn't discuss my points about this with the rest of the team. Thank you for your contribution! (yeah, that was tough)
As a summary:
- It is standard for install-able projects to have build+install instructions in INSTALL, here that is not the case, especially for an un-experienced user who may break their install (I am even considering to put BIG WARNINGS not to install)
- The purpose of the document is to help new people to start hacking on the code without prior knowledge of packaging and prior experience from where to find certain distribution's packaging source and how to deduce dependencies from that. We do not expect a user to download and install eudev (if they do, they are a superuser), hence there is no place of the instructions in the README.
- @blueness can you please help with a couple of lines how to build on Gentoo (the part with installing build deps)?
- @ArsenArsen can you please help with a couple of lines how to build on Alpine (the part with installing build deps)?
- @bbonev I will add ArchLinux and Fedora instructions shortly; I will also verify if the current ones are pertinent for Devuan/Ubuntu and amend them if necessary; I think that hacking the code on any Linux OS should be OK, but debugging and testing it is another story and soon that will become an important part
ArsenArsen
slicer69
Added new file (BUILD) with instructions for getting dependencies, configuring, and building the source code.
Added blurb to README with simplified build instructions.