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--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
$ make
$ make install install-doc
-Optionally, you can use the `configure` script to detect library location:
+From tig's git repository it is also possible to install documentation directly
+from the release branch to avoid installing the documentation tool chain:
+
+ $ make install-release-doc
+
+Optionally, you can use the `configure` script to detect dependencies:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make configure
+Build settings are read from the file "config.make". To manually configure tig
+to use the ncurses library with wide character support, add the line:
+
+ LDLIBS = -lncursesw
+
Release notes documenting notable changes are available in the NEWS file. When
upgrading, you are advised to also read them after you have completed the
installation.
|=============================================================================
|Tool |Description
|git-core |Tig is just a frontend for git.
-|ncurses |Be sure to also have development files
+|ncurses or ncursesw |Be sure to have the development files
installed. Usually they are available in a
separate package ending with `-dev`.
+ Note also that ncurses with wide character
+ support (ncursesw) is required to properly
+ handle UTF-8 encoded strings.
|iconv |If iconv is not provided by the c library
you need to change the Makefile to link it
into the binary.
|Tool |Description
|autoconf |Contains autoreconf for generating configure
from configure.ac.
-|asciidoc (>= 8.0) |Generates HTML and (DocBook) XML from text.
+|asciidoc (>= 8.4) |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.
|DocBook (DSSL/Jade) tools |Generates PDF from XML.