Re: [Cscope-devel] How to build cscope?

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 23.08.2021 um 17:15 schrieb Christopher Svec via Cscope-devel:

> Hi, I cloned cscope with "git clone
> https://git.code.sf.net/p/cscope/cscope" and now I'd like to know how
> to build a local copy on my Ubuntu machine.

You could normally just install the tool the Ubuntu package.  Or build 
from a tarball.  This is a very stable package; so there's really not 
much to be gained by installing from git.

> The README file says to look in the INSTALL file - but I don't see
> one. I also don't see a "configure" script that I might expect to
> run. How do I configure and build cscope from source?

Those are generated files, so they're not in git.  As explained in

	README.git.