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| author | Daniel Lange <DLange@git.local> | 2017-05-03 20:37:21 +0200 |
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| committer | William Langford <wlangfor@gmail.com> | 2017-05-11 09:05:56 -0400 |
| commit | cb3d5aff845c78172090e7ec3c52f0b8c8e05c78 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f4be3a66b35faf1e54dfdc1bdf0af4b78167600 | |
| parent | 6d89e297febdbcbad4ecf201e56fc8ec99f67137 (diff) | |
Improved git build instructions.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -23,19 +23,21 @@ Source tarball and built executable releases can be found on the homepage and on the github release page, https://github.com/stedolan/jq/releases If you're building directly from the latest git, you'll need flex, -bison (3.0 or newer), libtool, make, and autoconf installed. To get -regexp support you'll also need to install Oniguruma (note that jq's -tests require regexp support to pass). To build, run: - - autoreconf -i # if building from git - ./configure +bison (3.0 or newer), libtool, make, and autoconf installed. +To get regexp support you'll also need to install Oniguruma or clone it as a +git submodule as per the instructions below. +(note that jq's tests require regexp support to pass). To build, run: + + git submodule update --init # if building from git to get oniguruma + autoreconf -fi # if building from git + ./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin make -j8 make check To build without bison or flex, add `--disable-maintainer-mode` to the ./configure invocation: - ./configure --disable-maintainer-mode + ./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin --disable-maintainer-mode (Developers must not use `--disable-maintainer-mode`, not when making changes to the jq parser and/or lexer.) |