Make it more clear that use of configure (and autoreconf) is optional

Suggested by Junio.

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 93c0364a1675fe0db800bbab3c2ac36ba63dacbe..85662a33807d25fbd1cff6c1c318b0b4e32fd99a 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -3,21 +3,25 @@ Installation instructions
 
 Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases[] or clone the tig
 repository http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git[]. Documentation files are
-available either in the tarballs or in the above repository in the branch named
-'release'.
+available in the tarballs and in the 'release' branch of the tig repository.
 
-To install tig simply run:
+The quick and simple way to install tig with documentation is to run:
+
+       $ make
+       $ make install install-doc
+
+Optionally, you can use the `configure` script to detect library location:
 
-       $ autoreconf
        $ ./configure
+       $ make
        $ make install
 
-To install documentation run:
-
-       $ make install-doc
+If your iconv library is not in the default library and include path, you'll
+probably want to pass the "--with-libiconv" option to the "configure" script to
+tell it where to look. Note, if you are building from the tig repository, you
+need to first make the configure script:
 
-If you had to install your own copy of libiconv, you'll probably want to pass
-the "--with-libiconv" option to the "configure" script to tell it where to look.
+       $ make configure
 
 The following tools and packages are needed:
 
@@ -33,10 +37,12 @@ iconv                               If iconv is not provided by the c library \
                                into the binary.
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-The following optional tools and packages are needed for building
-documentation:
+The following optional tools and packages are needed for creating the
+configure script and building documentation:
 
 `-------------------------------`----------------------------------------------
+autoconf                       Contains autoreconf for generating configure \
+                               from configure.ac.
 asciidoc (>= 8.0)              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.