{subsection: Required Prereqs}
One needs, as a good start these revisions, or later, of these tools:
-wget-1.9.1, tar 1.14, autoconf-2.59. If you are on a recent linux-flavor
-machine, building HTCondor is pretty easy, the farther you get into
-the fringe architectures, like ia64 hpux 11, the more prereqs you may
-need. Luckily, the configure output is pretty good about telling you
-about any tools you need to update.
+wget-1.9.1, tar 1.14, autoconf-2.59.
From some experimentation, here's a list of pre-requisite RPMs necessary for a UW-style build on SL6 as of version 8.5.0:
@@ -64,6 +60,12 @@
then follow ManagingCondorSourceTreesWithGit up to but not including the
section entitled =Working on a single person project=.
+Otherwise, git clone the source tree from github:
+
+{code}
+$ git clone https://github.com/htcondor/htcondor.git
+{endcode}
+
Ensure you have checked out and are about the build the correct branch you want.
If you'd like to perform the full build process, producing the sort of
