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INSTALL: explain info installation and dependencies.
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Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
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dakhubgit authored and gitster committed Aug 11, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -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,
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- 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
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