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@@ -89,10 +89,16 @@ Issues of note:
will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed;
the name is reserved for local settings.
- - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have the
- asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Alternatively, pre-formatted
- documentation are available in "html" and "man" branches of the git
- repository itself. For example, you could:
+ - 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.
+
+ Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in
+ "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
+ example, you could:
$ mkdir manual && cd manual
$ git init