X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/tig/blobdiff_plain/42ea463a72bf4f819cf731b187497a74c4e41b75..22d9b77cc7819b2dfce44f968c3df3ee4c2ccdae:/INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 088f674..85662a3 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -3,21 +3,25 @@ Installation instructions
 
 Download a tarball from http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/releases[] or clone the tig
 repository http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/tig.git[]. Documentation files are
-available either in the tarballs or in the above repository in the branch named
-'release'.
+available in the tarballs and in the 'release' branch of the tig repository.
 
-To install tig simply run:
+The quick and simple way to install tig with documentation is to run:
 
-	$ make install
+	$ make
+	$ make install install-doc
+
+Optionally, you can use the `configure` script to detect library location:
 
-To install documentation run:
+	$ ./configure
+	$ make
+	$ make install
 
-	$ make install-docs
+If your iconv library is not in the default library and include path, you'll
+probably want to pass the "--with-libiconv" option to the "configure" script to
+tell it where to look. Note, if you are building from the tig repository, you
+need to first make the configure script:
 
-Edit the Makefile if you need to configure specific compiler or linker flags.
-On FreeBSD for example the c library does not support the iconv interface and
-to compile tig you need to append `-L/usr/local/lib -liconv` to `LDLIBS` and
-`-I/usr/local/include` to the `CFLAGS` variable.
+	$ make configure
 
 The following tools and packages are needed:
 
@@ -31,5 +35,17 @@ ncurses				Be sure to also have development files \
 iconv				If iconv is not provided by the c library \
 				you need to change the Makefile to link it \
 				into the binary.
-asciidoc (>= 7.0), xmlto	For building documentation. (Optional)
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The following optional tools and packages are needed for creating the
+configure script and building documentation:
+
+`-------------------------------`----------------------------------------------
+autoconf			Contains autoreconf for generating configure \
+				from configure.ac.
+asciidoc (>= 8.0)		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. \
+				Also known as docbook-utils.
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