These notes intend to help people working on the checked-out sources.
These requirements do not apply when building from a distribution tarball.

* First Git checkout

You can get a copy of the source repository like this:

  $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/mcron
  $ cd mcron

The next step is to get and check other files needed to build, which are
extracted from other source packages:

  $ ./bootstrap

And there you are!  Just

  $ ./configure
  $ make

At this point, there should be no difference between your local copy, and the
Git master copy:

  $ git diff

should output no difference.

Enjoy!

* Submitting patches

If you develop a fix or a new feature, please send it to the appropriate
bug-reporting address as reported by the --help option of each program.  One
way to do this is to use vc-dwim <http://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/>), as
follows.

  Run the command "vc-dwim --help", copy its definition of the
  "git-changelog-symlink-init" function into your shell, and then run this
  function at the top-level directory of the package.

  Edit the (empty) ChangeLog file that this command creates, creating a
  properly-formatted entry according to the GNU coding standards
  <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html>.

  Make your changes.

  Run the command "vc-dwim" and make sure its output (the diff of all your
  changes) looks good.

  Run "vc-dwim --commit".

  Run the command "git format-patch --stdout -1", and email its output in,
  using the output's subject line.

* Updating auxilary scripts

  Fetch new versions of the files that are maintained in other GNU
  repositories by running "cd build-aux; ./gnu-fetch".  In case any file in the
  Mcron repository has been updated, commit and re-run the testsuite.

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Copyright © 2017, 2018 Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>

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