Fix and improve build-from-source instructions.

Fixes https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/1165
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Julius Volz 2015-10-15 22:33:59 +02:00
parent 5a0ce511dc
commit 41a7217986

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@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ To build Prometheus from the source code yourself you need to have a working
Go environment with [version 1.5 or greater installed](http://golang.org/doc/install).
You can directly use the `go` tool to download and install the `prometheus`
and `promtool` binaries into your `GOPATH`:
and `promtool` binaries into your `GOPATH`. We use Go 1.5's experimental
vendoring feature, so you will also need to set the `GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1`
environment variable in this case:
$ go get github.com/prometheus/prometheus/...
$ GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 go get github.com/prometheus/prometheus/cmd/...
$ prometheus -config.file=your_config.yml
You can also clone the repository yourself and build using `make`: