configure.ac: Set value-if-not-found, don't check for program 'false'

[tig.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a79a3d5b0e6d2e500be8bff9d31e82d7b41ad6c6..3f4844dc01cdf37a0cafaf648a1f96536f7641cd 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -10,7 +10,12 @@ The quick and simple way to install tig with documentation is to run:
        $ make
        $ make install install-doc
 
        $ make
        $ make install install-doc
 

-Optionally, you can use the `configure` script to detect library location:
+From tig's git repository it is also possible to install documentation directly
+from the release branch to avoid installing the documentation tool chain:
+
+       $ make install-release-doc
+
+Optionally, you can use the `configure` script to detect dependencies:

 
        $ ./configure
        $ make
 
        $ ./configure
        $ make


@@ -23,6 +28,11 @@ need to first make the configure script:
 
        $ make configure
 
 
        $ make configure
 

+Build settings are read from the file "config.make". To manually configure tig
+to use the ncurses library with wide character support, add the line:
+
+       LDLIBS = -lncursesw
+

 Release notes documenting notable changes are available in the NEWS file. When
 upgrading, you are advised to also read them after you have completed the
 installation.
 Release notes documenting notable changes are available in the NEWS file. When
 upgrading, you are advised to also read them after you have completed the
 installation.


@@ -33,9 +43,12 @@ The following tools and packages are needed:
 |=============================================================================
 |Tool                          |Description
 |git-core                      |Tig is just a frontend for git.
 |=============================================================================
 |Tool                          |Description
 |git-core                      |Tig is just a frontend for git.

-|ncurses                       |Be sure to also have development files
+|ncurses or ncursesw           |Be sure to have the development files

                                 installed. Usually they are available in a
                                 separate package ending with `-dev`.
                                 installed. Usually they are available in a
                                 separate package ending with `-dev`.

+                                Note also that ncurses with wide character
+                                support (ncursesw) is required to properly
+                                handle UTF-8 encoded strings.

 |iconv                         |If iconv is not provided by the c library
                                 you need to change the Makefile to link it
                                 into the binary.
 |iconv                         |If iconv is not provided by the c library
                                 you need to change the Makefile to link it
                                 into the binary.


@@ -49,7 +62,7 @@ configure script and building documentation:
 |Tool                          |Description
 |autoconf                      |Contains autoreconf for generating configure
                                 from configure.ac.
 |Tool                          |Description
 |autoconf                      |Contains autoreconf for generating configure
                                 from configure.ac.

-|asciidoc (>= 8.0)             |Generates HTML and (DocBook) XML from text.
+|asciidoc (>= 8.4)             |Generates HTML and (DocBook) XML from text.

 |xmlto                         |Generates manpages and chunked HTML from XML.
 |DocBook XSL (>= 1.72.0)       |Used by xmlto for building manpages.
 |DocBook (DSSL/Jade) tools     |Generates PDF from XML.
 |xmlto                         |Generates manpages and chunked HTML from XML.
 |DocBook XSL (>= 1.72.0)       |Used by xmlto for building manpages.
 |DocBook (DSSL/Jade) tools     |Generates PDF from XML.