X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?p=sysdb.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=191979e1ebe33065271a27e353cb15d51d1d3c20;hp=7371c46e3fcd6f86a64b4e13086bed313bc143ae;hb=56b97a180a53aecbfe9f7162b8ece3faae973cf9;hpb=70a3f7daeac51f82b5d81dedc5ad8ca267d72173 diff --git a/README b/README index 7371c46..191979e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -20,7 +20,29 @@ like the current memory utilization or much more. SysDB is free and open source software, licensed under the 2-clause BSD - license. See COPYING for details. + license. See COPYING for details. Changes between all SysDB releases can be + found in the file ReleaseNotes. + + + +Configure and install SysDB +--------------------------- + + To configure, build and install SysDB with the default settings, run + ‘./configure && make && make install’. For detailed, generic instructions + see INSTALL. For a complete list of configure options and their description, + run ‘./configure --help’. + + Various third-party packages are required for a full installation of SysDB. + See the section ‘Prerequisites’ below for details. A summary of + user-supplied and auto-detected build settings is displayed at the end of + each ‘configure’ run. Consult this first for trouble-shooting. + + By default, SysDB will be installed into ‘/opt/sysdb’. You can adjust this + setting by specifying the ‘--prefix’ configure option - see INSTALL for + details. If you pass DESTDIR= to ‘make install’, will be + prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when creating + packages for SysDB. Prerequisites ------------- @@ -46,11 +68,10 @@ Prerequisites - * asciidoc, xsltproc, xmlto: + * asciidoc, xmlto: The AsciiDoc text document format is used to write the manpages. - * libedit or libreadline: @@ -90,20 +111,6 @@ Testing For the latest coverage report, see: -Configuring / Compiling / Installing ------------------------------------- - - To configure, build and install SysDB with the default settings, run - ‘./configure && make && make install’. For detailed, generic instructions - see INSTALL. For a complete list of configure options and their description, - run ‘./configure --help’. - - By default, SysDB will be installed into ‘/opt/sysdb’. You can adjust this - setting by specifying the ‘--prefix’ configure option - see INSTALL for - details. If you pass DESTDIR= to ‘make install’, will be - prefixed to all installation directories. This might be useful when creating - packages for SysDB. - Author ------