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common: update README to list build dependencies

PATCH New Steve French 1 participant 1 message Nov 18, 2014 VFS

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PATCH 1/1 common: update README to list build dependencies

Add sample list of packages (dependencies) required to build XFSTESTS and add a step to the instructions to mention creating the test user needed for some of the ACL tests.

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 README | 6 ++++++
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README +6 -0
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@@ -4,8 +4,14 @@ _______________________
 
 Building Linux:
 	- cd into the xfstests directory
+	- install prerequisite packages
+	  For example, for Ubuntu:
+		"sudo apt-get install xfslibs-dev uuid-dev libtool e2fsprogs
+		 automake gcc libuuid1 quota attr libattr1-dev
+		 libacl1-dev libaio-dev xfsprogs libgdbm-dev gawk fio dbench"
 	- run make
 	- run make install
+	- create fsgqa test user ("sudo useradd fsgqa")
 	
 Building IRIX:
 	- cd into the xfstests directory 
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