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If you wish to help the gnulib development effort with build logs for your favorite platform, you may perform these steps:
Install the proper development tools. To build and test all of
Gnulib, you will need development tools for the programming languages
C, C++, Java, and Perl, along with standard POSIX utilities such as
awk
, make
and sh
. You will also need
development tools that include Autoconf, Automake, Bison, Gettext,
Git, GNU M4, Gperf, Libtool, and Texinfo. Some of these tools are
needed only by some modules. More details can be found in Gnulib’s
DEPENDENCIES file.
See https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ for how to get the current Gnulib sources via Git.
On a machine with GNU development tools installed and with a gnulib git checkout, use
gnulib-tool --create-megatestdir --with-tests --dir=...
Note: The created directory uses ca. 512 MB on disk.
Transfer this directory to a build machine (HP-UX, Cygwin, or whatever). Often it is easier to transfer one file, and this can be achieved by running, inside the directory the following commands:
./configure make dist
And then transferring the dummy-0.tar.gz file.
On the build machine, run ./do-autobuild (or "nohup ./do-autobuild"). It creates a directory logs/ with a log file for each module.