Documentation

[kgilmer]

The README refers to an INSTALL file with installation details but the file is not in the tarball nor the git repo.

[elmindreda]

That's... weird. Thank you!

It shouldn't be in the repo as it's a file provided by autotools, but it definitely should be in the tarball.

[sixtyfive]

The autotools INSTALL file is quite long and I always felt overwhelmed by it when trying to figure out things that don't work with a simple ./configure && make all install. How about a short hand-written file instead which tells people what to do in the usual case.

I'm currently trying to build duff under Alpine Linux by trial and error, which got me to here:

apk add base-devel libtool autoconf automake
...
autoreconf -i
...
autoconf
...
automake
...
./configure
...
checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
./configure: line 4323: syntax error: unexpected word (expecting ")")

Now I'm stuck because that last error doesn't lend itself to googling easily, I don't feel like reading an auto-generated configure script and I don't even know if the commands I've run so far made sense [in that order, also].

So it's a little frustrating, which is a little sad...