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zstd compressed sources are less than half the size of gzip coompressed sources, so are a better secondary distribution format in addition to xz. * README-prereq: Remove gzip, Add zstd. * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Likewise. Bump automake version check to 1.16.2 (released 2020). * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Disable gz, add dist-zstd. Bump automake version requirement to 1.16.2. * cfg.mk: Use compression level 18, and multi-threading. * NEWS: Mention the change.
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This gives some notes on obtaining the tools required for development.
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Also note the build prerequisites in the DEPENDENCIES file.
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These tools can be used by the 'bootstrap' and 'configure' scripts,
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as well as by 'make'. They include:
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- Autoconf <https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
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- Automake <https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
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- Bison <https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
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- Gettext <https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
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- Git <https://git-scm.com/>
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- Gperf <https://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/>
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- Help2man <https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/>
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- M4 <https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
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- Make <https://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
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- Perl <https://www.cpan.org/>
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- Tar <https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>
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- Texinfo <https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
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- Wget <https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
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- XZ Utils <https://tukaani.org/xz/>
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- Zstandard <https://github.com/facebook/zstd>
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It is generally better to use official packages for your system.
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If a package is not officially available you can build it from source
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and install it into a directory that you can then use to build this
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package. If some packages are available but are too old, install the
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too-old versions first as they may be needed to build newer versions.
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Here is an example of how to build a program from source. This
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example is for Autoconf; a similar approach should work for the other
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developer prerequisites. This example assumes Autoconf 2.71; it
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should be OK to use a later version of Autoconf, if available.
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prefix=$HOME/prefix # (or wherever else you choose)
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export PATH=$prefix/bin:$PATH
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wget https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.71.tar.gz
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gzip -d <autoconf-2.71.tar.gz | tar xf -
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cd autoconf-2.71
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./configure --prefix=$prefix
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make install
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Once the prerequisites are installed, you can build this package as
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described in README-hacking.
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