From cb3d5aff845c78172090e7ec3c52f0b8c8e05c78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lange Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 20:37:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improved git build instructions. --- README.md | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5d2f01a748..3bcee29b44 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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.)