Intention to adopt eudev

[Jesse Smith]

> 
>> In my mind, this seems like the first hurdle to clear: figuring out
>> how
>> to get eudev to build cleanly on Debian and Devuan and document it
>> clearly, maybe in a text file called INSTALL.
> 
> I would consider to name that BUILD a little more appropriate. It is
> unexpected for eudev to be build from source and installed by users
> (chances to break their system in this way are very high); the build
> instructions are only for developers. Normally this should come with
> your distribution.

I agree, on all points. Calling the file something like BUILD would be
good. And I agree most users won't build eudev from source. I'm just
thinking of helping developers (like us) who want to join the team.

> 
> Maybe you are trying to build on a too old system? Or you miss some
> dependency of autotools?

As far as I know everything I need should be there - but it's hard to
tell which is why I'm hoping we can focus on documenting exactly what
eudev needs to build. I've got the autoconf/autotools packages
installed, along with m4, etc. But the strip fails early in the
./autogen.sh script.

I'm running Debian 10, which is the equivalent of the latest version of
Devuan. Assuming Devuan is our primary platform, then hopefully
everything I have here is up to date enough to build eudev.

- Jesse