INSTALL: explain info installation and dependencies.

[thirdparty/git.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 79e71b6922cd82f411dbec1c77f6cf99c1b2ea34..289b046a443c0647624607d471289b2c7dcd470b 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -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,
@@ -91,9 +91,13 @@ Issues of note:
  - 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
@@ -116,3 +120,7 @@ Issues of note:
    would instead give you a copy of what you see at:
 
        http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
+
+   It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.72 and 1.73 are
+   buggy; 1.72 misformats manual pages for callouts, and 1.73 needs
+   the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch