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INSTALL: explain info installation and dependencies.
Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
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@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Normally you can just do "make" followed by "make install", and that
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will install the git programs in your own ~/bin/ directory. If you want
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to do a global install, you can do
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$ make prefix=/usr all doc ;# as yourself
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# make prefix=/usr install install-doc ;# as root
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$ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
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# make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-info ;# as root
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(or prefix=/usr/local, of course). Just like any program suite
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that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
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- To build and install documentation suite, you need to have
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the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are
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inclined to install the tools, the default build target
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("make all") does _not_ build them. The documentation is
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written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc"
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will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
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("make all") does _not_ build them.
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Building and installing the info file additionally requires
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makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work.
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The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
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ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
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Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in
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"html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For

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