1This document describes how to configure and build the extended
2attribute library and utility from source, and how to install them.
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40. If you have the binary rpm, simply install it and skip to step 2 (below).
5   The rpm command to do this is:
6	# rpm -Uvh attr
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8   The Debian command to do this is:
9	# dpkg -i attr
10   or, if you have apt configured (don't need the binary package):
11	# apt-get install attr
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131. Configure, build and install the package
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15   The "attr" package uses autoconf/configure and expects a GNU build
16   environment (your platform must at least have both autoconf and gmake). 
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18   If you just want to spin an RPM and/or tar file, use the Makepkgs
19   script in the top level directory. This will configure and build
20   the package and leave binary and src RPMs in the build/rpm
21   directory.  It will also leave a tar file in the build/tar
22   directory.
23
24       # ./Makepkgs verbose
25
26   If you want to build the package and install it manually, use the
27   following steps:
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29       # make configure  (or run autoconf; ./configure)
30       # make
31       # su root
32       # make install install-lib
33
34   Note that there are so many "install" variants out there that we
35   wrote our own script (see "install-sh" in the top level directory).
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37   If you wish to turn off debugging asserts in the command build and
38   turn on the optimizer then set the shell environment variables:
39
40	OPTIMIZER=-O
41	DEBUG=-DNDEBUG
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43   before running make configure or Makepkgs.
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452. How to Contribute
46
47   See the README file in this directory for details about how to
48   contribute to the Linux extended attributes project.
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