Addition of "xmlto" to install documentation

Addition of "xmlto" to install documentation

[Markus Elfring]

Hello,

I have cloned the current Git release to my computer. I resolved all
dependencies that were mentioned in the file "INSTALL". But when I've
tried "make install install-doc" I got the message that "xmlto" was not
found on my openSUSE 10.3 system. (I have installed it now.)
Would you like to add this tool to the system requirements in the
documentation?

Regards,
Markus

Re: Addition of "xmlto" to install documentation

[Alex Riesen]

Markus Elfring, Sat, Oct 13, 2007 22:42:18 +0200:
> 
> I have cloned the current Git release to my computer. I resolved all
> dependencies that were mentioned in the file "INSTALL". But when I've
> tried "make install install-doc" I got the message that "xmlto" was not
> found on my openSUSE 10.3 system. (I have installed it now.)
> Would you like to add this tool to the system requirements in the
> documentation?
> 

It is already there, in the same INSTALL file:

 - 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.

Re: Addition of "xmlto" to install documentation

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Markus Elfring wrote:

> I have cloned the current Git release to my computer. I resolved all 
> dependencies that were mentioned in the file "INSTALL". But when I've 
> tried "make install install-doc" I got the message that "xmlto" was not 
> found on my openSUSE 10.3 system. (I have installed it now.) Would you 
> like to add this tool to the system requirements in the documentation?

Well, it is not strictly necessary to build git, and not even to install 
it, if you have the "man" branch.

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: Addition of "xmlto" to install documentation

[Markus Elfring]

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> Well, it is not strictly necessary to build git, and not even 
> to install it, if you have the "man" branch.

Thanks for your reply.

I'll have to admit that I overlooked the hint for "the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain" because it was in a separate paragraph instead of another item in the system requirements enumeration. (The tool's version number does not look promising so far.)
I rebuilt Git on my system because I was notified that a newer release became available.

Regards,
Markus

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