INSTALL.md: document how to build from git (#20)

Fixes https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/20
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Adam Spiers 2017-03-19 21:12:46 +00:00
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@ -32,6 +32,26 @@ Advantages of the `Module::Build` approach:
- It performs dependency checking to ensure you have the necessary
Perl modules installed.
Both approaches are described in detail below. However if you are
building from the git repository rather than an official release,
you first need to perform some extra steps:
Preparatory steps required only when building from git
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`configure` and `Makefile` are included in official releases of Stow,
but they are deliberately omitted from the git repository because they
are autogenerated. Therefore if you are installing directly from git,
you first need to generate them as follows.
First `cd` to the directory containing the source code (and this
file), and then run:
autoreconf -iv
If this runs successfully then you are ready to continue with one of
the two installation methods below.
Basic Installation via `Module::Build`
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