Compile some programs only conditionally.

[git.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c62b12c2881548db13e12594fec1216b3bea9804..4a4e13fe46567a567b1ceb09a792379674dc6f57 100644 (file)
--- 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,
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ Issues of note:
    has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over to
    graphical file managers.
 
+   NOTE: As of gnuit-4.9.2, the GNU interactive tools package has been
+         renamed. You can compile gnuit with the --disable-transition
+         option and then it will not conflict with git.
+
  - You can use git after building but without installing if you
    wanted to.  Various git commands need to find other git
    commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to
@@ -63,10 +67,10 @@ Issues of note:
          that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
          its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile).
 
-       - "libcurl" and "curl" executable.  git-http-fetch and
-         git-fetch use them.  If you do not use http
-         transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have
-         them.
+       - libcurl library; git-http-fetch and git-fetch use them.  You
+         might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes.
+         If you do not use http transfer, you are probably OK if you
+         do not have them.
 
        - expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
          management over DAV.  Similar to "curl" above, this is optional.
@@ -91,9 +95,13 @@ 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