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@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Source tarball and built executable releases can be found on the homepage and on the github release page, https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases. Docker image is available at https://github.com/jqlang/jq/pkgs/container/jq. -If you're building directly from the latest git, you'll need flex, -bison (3.0 or newer), libtool, make, automake, and autoconf installed. +If you're building directly from the latest git, you'll need libtool, make, automake, +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. To build, run: @@ -29,13 +29,8 @@ git submodule as per the instructions below. To build, run: make -j8 make check -To build without bison or flex, add `--disable-maintainer-mode` to the -./configure invocation: - - ./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.) +Developers must `--enable-maintainer-mode` when making changes to the +jq parser and lexer which also requires bison and flex to be installed. To build a statically linked version of jq, run: @@ -71,7 +66,7 @@ To compile jq to WebAssembly, install the [Emscripten SDK](https://emscripten.or git submodule update --init # if building from git to get oniguruma autoreconf -i # if building from git - emconfigure ./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin --disable-maintainer-mode + emconfigure ./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin emmake make EXEEXT=.js CFLAGS="-O2" LDFLAGS="-s EXPORTED_RUNTIME_METHODS=['callMain']" |