Merge branch 'jn/make'

[git.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 433449fd8e1b6521a65084cadf3dc17ec8f0c45a..ba9778cd4de187878b6445be5fbf490d76879f30 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
 which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
 install" would not work.
 
+Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
+set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
+
+       $ autoconf ;# as yourself if ./configure doesn't exist yet
+       $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+       $ make all doc ;# as yourself
+       # make install install-doc ;# as root
+
+
 Issues of note:
 
  - git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
@@ -40,13 +49,11 @@ Issues of note:
 
          If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries
          that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
-         its own PowerPC-optimized one too - see the Makefile), and you
-         can avoid the bignum support by excising git-rev-list support
-         for "--merge-order" (by hand).
+         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 probabaly OK if you do not have
+         transfer, you are probably OK if you do not have
          them.
 
        - expat library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock
@@ -71,7 +78,7 @@ Issues of note:
          git, and if you only use git to track other peoples work you'll
          never notice the lack of it. 
 
-        - "wish", the TCL/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
+        - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the
           history graphically
 
        - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net
@@ -98,7 +105,7 @@ Issues of note:
 
        $ mkdir manual && cd manual
        $ git init-db
-       $ git clone-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
+       $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
          while read a b
          do
            echo $a >.git/$b