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Thanks for your submission. However, I'd like to point out that I personally am against Markdown, and prefer RST or plain text.
Create efficient deltas (patches) between two SquashFS images | ||
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## Building from source | ||
This project uses [autotools](http://inti.sourceforge.net/tutorial/libinti/autotoolsproject.html) |
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I'm against linking to some project's documentation that is in no way related to this project or upstream autotools.
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$ git clone https://github.com/mgorny/squashdelta.git | ||
$ cd squashdelta |
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There's little activity in git, and there is a proper release .tar (in 'Releases') which is strongly recommended over it.
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```bash | ||
$ aclocal | ||
$ autoconf |
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Those two are covered by autoreconf
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$ aclocal | ||
$ autoconf | ||
$ touch AUTHORS NEWS README ChangeLog |
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This is not needed at all.
$ aclocal | ||
$ autoconf | ||
$ touch AUTHORS NEWS README ChangeLog | ||
$ mkdir build-aux |
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This is probably unnecessary.
$ touch AUTHORS NEWS README ChangeLog | ||
$ mkdir build-aux | ||
$ autoreconf --install | ||
$ automake --add-missing |
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This is already done by autoreconf
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$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/bin |
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This is a weird prefix to suggest. Please remember that users take this seriously, and they're going to end up installing in this weird location.
Add build instructions for non-Gentoo users