[PATCH] doc: make README-prereq more generic

[Jim Meyering]

FYI,

>From 54158a45fa04a57bef774e79082e0f3a565b06b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:11:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: make README-prereq more generic

* README-prereq: Adjust wording and reduce number of mentions of
"coreutils", so it's easier to reuse in another package: grep.
---
 README-prereq |   26 +++++++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README-prereq b/README-prereq
index fcb5058..265161f 100644
--- a/README-prereq
+++ b/README-prereq
@@ -14,14 +14,18 @@ I.E. the tools checked for by the bootstrap script and 
include:
 - Texinfo   <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>

 Note please try to install/build official packages for your system.
-If these are not available then one can make them available only to
-the coreutils build using the following instructions.  Even if the
-official packages for your system are too old, please install them
-as they may be required to build the newer versions.  The examples
-below build into $HOME/coreutils/deps/, so first ensure that your
-$PATH is set correctly, which can be done for the current shell like:
+If these programs are not available use the following instructions
+to build them and install the results into a directory that you will
+then use when building this package.

-  export PATH=$HOME/coreutils/deps/bin:$PATH
+Even if the official version of a package for your system is too old,
+please install it, as it may be required to build the newer versions.
+The examples below install into $HOME/coreutils/deps/, so if you are
+going to follow these instructions, first ensure that your $PATH is
+set correctly by running this command:
+
+  prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
+  export PATH=$prefix/bin:$PATH

 * autoconf *

@@ -29,7 +33,7 @@ $PATH is set correctly, which can be done for the current 
shell like:
   git clone --depth=1 git://git.sv.gnu.org/autoconf.git
   git checkout v2.62
   autoreconf -vi
-  ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
+  ./configure --prefix=$prefix
   make install

 * automake *
@@ -39,7 +43,7 @@ $PATH is set correctly, which can be done for the current 
shell like:
   cd automake
   git checkout v1.11.1
   ./bootstrap
-  ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
+  ./configure --prefix=$prefix
   make install

 coreutils uses XZ utils (successor to LZMA) to create
@@ -51,7 +55,7 @@ requires version 1.10a or newer, as well as the xz program 
itself.
   git clone git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git
   cd xz
   ./autogen.sh
-  ./configure --prefix=$HOME/coreutils/deps
+  ./configure --prefix=$prefix
   make install

-Now one can build coreutils as described in README-hacking.
+Now you can build this package as described in README-hacking.
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