[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Mention libarchive and libdownload as dependencies in INSTALL.

Loui louipc.ist at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 19:02:11 EDT 2008


This is just to give people trying to build pacman more info right off
the bat.

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From: Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:45:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Mention libarchive and libdownload as dependencies in INSTALL.

Signed-off-by: Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com>
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 INSTALL |   15 +++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 5458714..22f65aa 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -10,10 +10,21 @@ unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
 Basic Installation
 ==================
 
+You will need to build and install two libraries before you can
+properly build pacman.
+
+libarchive
+http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/
+
+and
+
+libdownload
+http://code.phraktured.net/source/
+
 Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
 configure, build, and install this package.  The following
-more-detailed instructions are generic; see the `README' file for
-instructions specific to this package.
+instructions are generic. Run `./configure --help` for specific
+options.
 
    The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
 various system-dependent variables used during compilation.  It uses
-- 
1.6.0.2



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