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
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 don’t want the overhead of
+upstream Solaris development closely and do not want the overhead of
maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives to Linux
primitives.
$ ./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: