GSOC: Introduction

[Abhishek Tiwari]

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On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 01:54:33AM +0530, Abhishek Tiwari wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Abhishek Tiwari
>> <erabhishektiwarics at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Good evening everyone,
>> > I am Abhishek Tiwari pursuing M.Tech IIT Kharagpur. I am looking
>> > forward to contribute to strace Project Idea -> Netlink socket
>> > parsers.
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>>
>> I have made a change in INSTALL file (there the bootstrap script was
>> not mentioned to be run in installation step). Please review the
>> patch.
>
> This INSTALL file comes directly from GNU Automake, it's intended
> for those who build the package from tarball.
>
> To build strace "from git", one has to run ./bootstrap script first.
> This is mentioned in README-hacking, but not in INSTALL file,
> which is somewhat confusing.
>
> Perhaps it would be better to create a separate file with instructions how
> to build strace "from git" and reference INSTALL from there.
>
> Alternatively, we can modify INSTALL file, but the new wording shouldn't
> be confusing to those who build strace from tarball.
>
>> Is sending patch preferred over sending pull request or I can directly
>> send pull requests from github?
>
> We prefer patches sent to this mailing list.
>
>
> --
> ldv
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Thank you ldv for your response
I have made changes to README.md file so that instruction would be
visible as anyone visits the repository on Github.
Below is patch attached for the same.
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