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| author | David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> | 2007-08-07 12:02:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-08-10 23:16:38 -0700 |
| commit | 98e79f63be7e2cf043bd3150ae9ac0c8d118ce61 (patch) | |
| tree | 023d2c1aa590a024c408d0da6f322cdd0253baf4 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 4739809cd0ea12a8de006f9f086fdff9285189b8 (diff) | |
| download | git-98e79f63be7e2cf043bd3150ae9ac0c8d118ce61.tar.gz | |
INSTALL: explain info installation and dependencies.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want to do a global install, you can do - $ make prefix=/usr all doc ;# as yourself - # make prefix=/usr install install-doc ;# as root + $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself + # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-info ;# as root (or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded, @@ -91,9 +91,13 @@ Issues of note: - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are inclined to install the tools, the default build target - ("make all") does _not_ build them. The documentation is - written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" - will let you format with AsciiDoc 8. + ("make all") does _not_ build them. + + Building and installing the info file additionally requires + makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work. + + The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make + ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8. Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For |