X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=INSTALL;h=289b046a443c0647624607d471289b2c7dcd470b;hb=b3abdd9d216c578383b66bb10b95edb3380640e7;hp=79e71b6922cd82f411dbec1c77f6cf99c1b2ea34;hpb=4b7f59af2a5b072a0a3950c956842e4d6223a167;p=git.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 79e71b692..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 @@ -116,3 +120,7 @@ Issues of note: would instead give you a copy of what you see at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ + + It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are + buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs + the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch