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| author | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2007-10-14 00:35:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2007-10-14 00:35:34 +0100 |
| commit | 4091176aa947355d4c0035e79e7f1904a737f2f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 365ae96ce81adb23c8fe0d0dc85b3d5cf3c19a82 /README | |
| parent | 6c8ea47048179e58c82b8f67eb4862479c4e7003 (diff) | |
* README: Remove several restrictions lifted by the conversion to
Automake. Remove documentation of how to install native language
manual pages, since this is now done unconditionally. Remove
documentation of the update target, which no longer exists and
should no longer be needed.
* docs/NEWS: Document conversion to Automake.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 23 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 19 deletions
@@ -16,13 +16,7 @@ Read docs/NEWS for visible changes since the last public release. Read docs/ChangeLog for details of recent source code changes. Read docs/TODO for future plans. -This package _requires_ GNU make version 3.68 or newer to be used. -Other vendors' make programs will not work with the Makefiles in this -package due to extensive utilization of GNU make features. - -The C source requires an ANSI C compiler. To generate dependencies (only -necessary if developing or source level debugging), a cpp that understands --M is required. +The C source requires an ANSI C compiler. Notice to users of man-db version 2.2 or 2.2.1 @@ -157,15 +151,7 @@ Install the package. o (gain superuser privileges for the rest of the steps) - o RUN `make install' to install the utilities and English manual - pages. - -The following command is required if you elected to compile the package -without support for message catalogues but would like to install native -language manual page translations. - - o RUN `make man targets=install LINGUAS=<your_choice>' to install - translations of the standard English manual pages + o RUN `make install' to install the utilities and manual pages. Initialise the `index' databases for all manpaths marked as global in the man-db configuration file. @@ -222,9 +208,8 @@ Makefile targets and variables The standard GNU Makefile targets: all, install, uninstall, mostlyclean, clean, distclean, realclean and TAGS are available in every Makefile- -supported directory. In addition, the master Makefile has the targets: -update (update any configuration files whose source has changed) and dist -(create a compressed and tarred distribution file). +supported directory. In addition, the master Makefile has the dist target +to create a compressed and tarred distribution file. During the configuration process, `configure' sets the installation variables, `prefix' and `exec_prefix'. These are then used to form other |