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| author | Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter722@aol.de> | 2015-06-18 11:00:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Pavel Šimerda <pavlix@pavlix.net> | 2016-08-20 00:13:55 +0200 |
| commit | 77744106583acde8bef057cc3f6292bf42e4e476 (patch) | |
| tree | bea403b72287d374da5ba84abe1c5d8c08706d7d | |
| parent | dd4aaa069bc2aa20b84e266b94975bfc0f57eb1d (diff) | |
| download | iputils-77744106583acde8bef057cc3f6292bf42e4e476.tar.gz | |
(re)structured INSTALL.md and transformed into markdown; added hint that installation into prefix has to be done with DESTDIR make variable and that there's no prefix support in configure, close #21
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.md | 48 |
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@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@ - -make -make html -make man -lynx doc/iputils.html -Read... - - - -If the first "make" fails, no problems: - -make html -lynx doc/iputils.html -Read section "Installation notes"... - - - -But if "make html" fails too, check that DocBook package is installed -on your machine. If it is installed, and nevertheless "make" does not work, -delete iputils and go to sleep. The next day repeat. If even full reset -did not help, I bring apologies. :-) - - +# Installation instructions +Run the following commands: + + make + make html + make man + lynx doc/iputils.html + # Read... + +## Troubleshooting +If the first `make` fails, no problems: + + make html + lynx doc/iputils.html + Read section "Installation notes"... + +But if `make html` fails too, check that DocBook package is installed +on your machine. If it is installed, and `make` does not work nevertheless, +please [open an issue on github.com] +(https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/new). + +## Install into a prefix +There's no `configure` option to install into a prefix. Use the `DESTDIR` +`make` variable to change the installation target. There's no support for +picking up build dependencies in a prefix. |