[open-ils-commits] r17053 - trunk (dbs)

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Author: dbs
Date: 2010-07-29 12:23:21 -0400 (Thu, 29 Jul 2010)
New Revision: 17053

Modified:
   trunk/README
Log:
Add Developer Instructions section, like the OpenSRF README, per tsbere's suggestion


Modified: trunk/README
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--- trunk/README	2010-07-29 02:56:48 UTC (rev 17052)
+++ trunk/README	2010-07-29 16:23:21 UTC (rev 17053)
@@ -28,8 +28,12 @@
 ==========================================
 
 For the time being, we are still installing everything in the /openils/
-directory. Issue the following commands to configure and build Evergreen:
+directory. If you are working with a version of Evergreen taken directly
+from the Subversion repository, rather than a packaged version of Evergreen,
+first see "Developer instructions" below.
 
+Otherwise, issue the following commands to configure and build Evergreen:
+
 ./configure --prefix=/openils --sysconfdir=/openils/conf
 make
 
@@ -153,6 +157,23 @@
 It also creates the configuration files required by the Evergreen cgi-bin
 administration scripts.
 
+Developer instructions:
+======================
+
+Developers working directly with the source code from the Subversion
+repository will also need to install some extra packages and perform
+one more step before they can proceed with the "./configure" step.
+
+Install the following packages:
+  * autoconf
+  * automake
+  * libtool
+
+Run the following command in the source directory to generate the configure
+script and Makefiles:
+
+$ ./autogen.sh 
+
 Getting help:
 ============