From 795b593a475327352308dfba23aeb2217599c8df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:48:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] * INSTALL: Document several build requirements for optional features (libdevmapper, ncurses, libusb, SDL, FreeType, GNU Unifont). --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ INSTALL | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 7279197ee..d67e7efa4 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2010-06-03 Colin Watson + + * INSTALL: Document several build requirements for optional features + (libdevmapper, ncurses, libusb, SDL, FreeType, GNU Unifont). + 2010-06-02 Grégoire Sutre * kern/emu/hostdisk.c (convert_system_partition_to_system_disk) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 7186d20db..44a442253 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -19,6 +19,21 @@ configuring the GRUB. * Flex 2.5.35 or later * Other standard GNU/Unix tools +On GNU/Linux, you also need: + +* libdevmapper (recommended) + +To build grub-emu, you need: + +* ncurses +* libusb (recommended) +* SDL (recommended) + +To build GRUB's graphical terminal (gfxterm), you need: + +* FreeType 2 or later +* GNU Unifont + If you use a development snapshot or want to hack on GRUB you may need the following.