From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [install info (using perl) 2/2] INSTALL: explain info installation and dependencies.
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 12:02:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8d1bd7bc54a3cd933598be0886a0fbe83e1775f.1186484406.git.dak@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <591c5679ea79b76cd5db57443b1d691bde842351.1186484406.git.dak@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
---
INSTALL | 14 +++++++++-----
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c62b12c..289b046 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -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
--
1.5.3.rc4.21.ga63eb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-06 10:22 [install info (using perl) 1/2] Add support for an info version of the user manual David Kastrup
2007-08-07 10:02 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-08-08 22:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 23:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 23:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 23:46 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-08 23:27 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-08 23:25 ` David Kastrup
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-06 10:22 David Kastrup
2007-08-07 10:02 ` [install info (using perl) 2/2] INSTALL: explain info installation and dependencies David Kastrup
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