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2.1.3 Build From VCS Requirements

Some of the optional dependencies might be mandatory to build the software from VCS:

• GNU texinfo is not an optional requirement, as info files are generated from the sources.
• A TeX distribution is required for the make target distcheck.

There are some additional dependencies to build the MicroBenchmark from the git repository, in addition to git itself. The following software to compile MicroBenchmark after modifying its sources:

• GNU wget (Optional)

  The external dependencies build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog and build-aux/test-driver.scm will be downloaded automatically when they aren’t found on the source directory. You can avoid this placing them manually on the source tree.

• GNU Autotools

  MicroBenchmark uses GNU Autoconf (see GNU Autoconf) for the generation of configure. GNU Automake (see GNU Automake) is used for the generation of Makefile.in. GNU libtool (see GNU libtool) is needed for the library generation scripts. GNU autopoint (see autopoint in GNU autopoint) is needed for the internationalization support.

• GNU Autoconf Archive

  configure.ac uses the macro AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX (see ax_cxx_compile_stdcxxx in GNU Autoconf Archive.)

• GNU indent (Optional)

  The target make indent-code and the script build-aux/indent.sh use GNU indent (see GNU indent) to format C source code.

These are common names for the packages providing these dependencies:

• git
• wget
• autoconf
• autoconf-archive
• automake
• autopoint
• libtool
• indent