From: David Kastrup Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:02:12 +0000 (+0200) Subject: INSTALL: explain info installation and dependencies. X-Git-Tag: v1.5.3-rc5~27 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=98e79f63be7e2cf043bd3150ae9ac0c8d118ce61;p=git.git INSTALL: explain info installation and dependencies. Signed-off-by: David Kastrup --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index c62b12c28..289b046a4 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