Anastasia Klimchuk has uploaded this change for review.
README: Add installing and packaging instructions for meson
Ticket: https://ticket.coreboot.org/issues/489
Change-Id: I2d5900538d54c43efcc8c5b7010df5d867f3b190
Signed-off-by: Anastasia Klimchuk <aklm@chromium.org>
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M README.rst
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/flashrom refs/changes/25/75125/1
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index ff73341..dc8b77c 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -25,14 +25,9 @@
flashrom supports building with **make** and **meson**.
-Meson build system supports almost all the environments, although not exactly
-all of them. Full meson support is on the roadmap in the nearest future.
To build flashrom with meson, follow the instruction and information in
:doc:`dev_guide/building_from_source`
-If you are unsure which build system to use, and/or don't know what's the
-difference, use make for now.
-
The rest of Build Instructions below refers to building flashrom with make.
**To build flashrom you need to install the following software:**
@@ -171,7 +166,17 @@
Installation
------------
-In order to install flashrom and the manpage into /usr/local, type::
+To install flashrom and documentation with meson into ``sbin`` run::
+
+ meson install -C <your_build_dir>
+
+To install into a different directory use DESTDIR, like this::
+
+ DESTDIR=/your/destination/directory meson install -C <your_build_dir>
+
+The rest of the installation instructions refers to installing with make.
+
+In order to install flashrom and the manpage into ``/usr/local``, run::
make install
@@ -186,6 +191,17 @@
Packaging
---------
+Current flashrom version is in the VERSION file. To release a new flashrom
+version you need to change VERSION file and tag the changing commit.
+
+To create a distribution package with meson run::
+
+ meson dist -C <your_build_dir>
+
+This will collect all git tracked files and pack them into an archive.
+
+The rest of packaging instructions refers to packaging with make.
+
To package flashrom and remove dependencies on Git, either use::
make export
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