[pacman-dev] compiling pacman and python wrapper

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Andrea Crotti
<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to create a python wrapper to access to pacman features,
> and so I started to take a look about how it works..
>
> The first thing that I noted is that the INSTALL instructions are a bit
> confusing.
> Because it says:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Briefly, the shell commands `./configure; make; make install' should
> configure, build, and install this package.  The following
> instructions are generic. Run `./configure --help` for specific
> options.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But actually there is no "configure" until autoconf is run, but that is
> explained only later.
> So maybe just inverting the order might be fine, first talking about
> autoconf and configure.ac and after talking about configure && make.
./autogen.sh if you are building from git and not a tarball.

-Dan