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1 | This README-hacking file describes the development environment. |
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3 | Everything related to the development of GNU lightning is on Savannah: | |
4 | https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/lightning/. | |
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6 | ||
7 | * Working from the Repository | |
8 | ||
9 | ** Autotools | |
10 | ||
11 | This distribution uses the latest stable versions of Automake, Autoconf. If | |
12 | you are getting the sources from git (or change configure.ac), you'll need | |
13 | to have these tools installed to (re)build. All | |
14 | of these programs are available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu. | |
15 | ||
16 | If you're using a GNU/Linux distribution, the easiest way to install these | |
17 | packages depends on your system. The following shell command should work | |
18 | for Debian-based systems such as Ubuntu: | |
19 | ||
20 | $ sudo apt-get install autoconf automake | |
21 | ||
22 | ||
23 | ** Building | |
24 | ||
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25 | If you intend to do development work with lightning, it's useful to build |
26 | lightning with its disassembler feature enabled. This optional feature | |
27 | requires additional dependencies. On Ubuntu, this command should work: | |
28 | ||
29 | $ sudo apt-get install binutils-dev libiberty-dev zlib1g-dev | |
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31 | After getting the git sources, and installing the tools above, you can run |
32 | ||
33 | $ ./bootstrap | |
34 | $ ./configure | |
35 | $ make | |
36 | $ make check | |
37 | ||
38 | to do a fresh build. At this point, there should be no difference between | |
39 | your local copy, and the master copy: | |
40 | ||
41 | $ git diff | |
42 | ||
43 | should output no difference. | |
44 | ||
45 | After that first time, running make should suffice. | |
46 | ||
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47 | To install lightning: |
48 | ||
49 | $ sudo make install | |
50 | ||
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51 | ** Gnulib |
52 | ||
53 | This distribution also uses Gnulib (https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib) to | |
54 | share common files, stored as a submodule in git. | |
55 | ||
56 | ** Updating | |
57 | ||
58 | $ git pull | |
59 | $ git submodule update | |
60 | ||
61 | ** Updating a submodule | |
62 | ||
63 | To update a submodule, say gnulib, do as follows: | |
64 | ||
65 | Get the most recent version of the master branch from git. | |
66 | ||
67 | $ cd gnulib | |
68 | $ git pull | |
69 | ||
70 | Make sure GNU lightning can live with that version of gnulib. | |
71 | ||
72 | $ cd .. | |
73 | $ ./bootstrap | |
74 | $ make distcheck | |
75 | ||
76 | Register your changes. | |
77 | ||
78 | $ git commit ... | |
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80 | ||
81 | ---- | |
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83 | ||
84 | Copyright 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
85 | ||
86 | This file is part of GNU lightning. | |
87 | ||
88 | GNU lightning is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
89 | it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as | |
90 | published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at | |
91 | your option) any later version. | |
92 | ||
93 | GNU lightning is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
94 | WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
95 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
96 | Lesser General Public License for more details. | |
97 | ||
98 | You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public | |
99 | License along with this program. If not, see | |
100 | <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
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