mirror_zfs/README.markdown
Brian Behlendorf f7f344f1b0 Improve build instructions
Make it clear that when building directly from the Git tree
the configure script must be manually generated by running the
autogen.sh script.  This requires that the GNU autotools packages
be installed for your distribution.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes zfsonlinux/zfs#1448
2013-07-11 16:12:18 -07:00

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The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides
many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to
run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal
modification. This can be particularly useful when you want to track
upstream Solaris development closely and do not want the overhead of
maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux
primitives.
To build packages for your distribution:
$ ./configure
$ make pkg
If you are building directly from the git tree and not an officially
released tarball you will need to generate the configure script.
This can be done by executing the autogen.sh script after installing
the GNU autotools for your distribution.
To copy the kernel code inside your kernel source tree for builtin
compilation:
$ ./configure --enable-linux-builtin --with-linux=/usr/src/linux-...
$ ./copy-builtin /usr/src/linux-...
Full documentation for building, configuring, and using the SPL can
be found at: <http://zfsonlinux.org>