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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrea Bolognani
313e628a76 CONTRIBUTING: Include note about build system tools
Debian always runs autoreconf at package build time, which means
that apt-get build-dep will bring in everything that's needed to
build libvirt from a git clone; Fedora and RHEL, however, skip
this step, so we have to install some extra packages manually.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-05-04 19:03:51 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
22a370baf6 CONTRIBUTING: Indent command by three spaces
This is the proper way to do it according to our reStructuredText
style guidelines.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-05-04 19:03:40 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
94cb908f90 CONTRIBUTING: Include information on build dependencies
libvirt depends on a ton of packages, so trying to install them
all by using the classic approach of repeatedly running configure
and reacting to each failure by installing the corresponding
missing package will inevitably lead to frustration.

Luckily there's an easy solution to get most dependencies
installed in one fell swoop, and we just need to document it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
2020-04-21 19:25:38 +02:00
Andrea Bolognani
874952f80c CONTRIBUTING: Add entry point for new contributors
It's generally expected that a git repository will contain this file,
which serves as an entry point for people interested in contributing
to the project.

In our case, we have extensive documentation available on the
website which we don't want to duplicate, so let's just point people
there.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
2020-04-14 13:16:13 +02:00