[PATCH] README: Replace "configure" with "autogen.sh" for correct installation

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:09:50AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 5/15/20 11:01 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 16:51:28 +0800, Yi Wang wrote:
> > > From: LiaoPingfang <liao.pingfang at zte.com.cn>
> > > 
> > > First of all, there is no "configure" file.
> > > We need use autogen.sh at first to create "configure" file.
> > > Then in autogen.sh "configure" will be executed according to
> > > user as root or non-root.
> > 
> > NACK, autogen needs to be run when running from a git checkout, but is
> > not present when building from a tarball.
> > 
> > You can modify that statement but blankly stating that autogen needs to
> > be run is wrong.
> 
> Well, I guess we need two sections. Thing is, README serves two goals since
> we switched to gitlab. The first one, the old one - README as part of
> release tarball, but it also gained new purpose - landing webpage for
> developers who browse gitlab (that is why we have images in the .rst).
> 
> Therefore, what we should do is to have a section that covers "building from
> git" and another one "building from a tarball". Note that we already cover
> these in [1], so maybe after all drop all compile info in favour of the
> link?

Or just ignore the problem for now, since when we switch to Meson, we'll
have the same instructions regardless of whether building from git or
tarballs.


Regards,
Daniel
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