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| author | Neal H. Walfield <neal@gnu.org> | 2008-12-12 20:02:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Neal H. Walfield <neal@gnu.org> | 2008-12-12 20:02:15 +0100 |
| commit | fe97559f4391ba06821173613cd8cecdccd22e1d (patch) | |
| tree | 83429438958198b72f95c11baadd0baa264adacd | |
| parent | f8ba4ebecb8fc85f03741c7b52270e0abcfd6ec9 (diff) | |
Mention build requirements earlier.
2008-12-12 Neal H. Walfield <neal@gnu.org>
* README: Move build requirements prior to build instructions.
Suggested by: Ben Asselstine <benasselstine@gmail.com>.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 30 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2008-12-12 Neal H. Walfield <neal@gnu.org> + + * README: Move build requirements prior to build instructions. + Suggested by: Ben Asselstine <benasselstine@gmail.com>. + 2008-11-20 Neal H. Walfield <neal@gnu.org> * configure.ac: Don't look for inkscape. @@ -13,6 +13,20 @@ will eventually be removed. How to build ------------ +You need at least automake 1.9 and autoconf 2.57. + +To build the documentation, you also need pdflatex and some supporting +packages. On Ubuntu Hardy (probably pretty much the same for Debian +and other Ubuntu systems), you'll need these packages installed for +the documentation build to succeed: + + * texlive-fonts-recommended + * texlive-latex-base + * texlive-latex-extra + * texlive-latex-recommended + * texlive-science + + Building the code is straightforward: $ autoreconf -i @@ -37,8 +51,6 @@ expensive consistency checks; level 0 disables all consistency checks, the trace buffer and all debugging output except that at level 0. -You need at least automake 1.9 and autoconf 2.57. - If you happen to be on a multi-processor system, you can run ``make -j'' to have several target be built in parallel. This may save some time. It might even shorten the building time on one-processor system. (No specific @@ -49,19 +61,9 @@ Documentation ------------- A ``Viengoos Developer Reference'' is available in the `doc' subdirectory. A -PDF will be created during the build process. - -On Ubuntu hardy (probably pretty much the same for Debian and other Ubuntu -systems) you'll need these packages installed for the documentation build to -succeed: - - * texlive-fonts-recommended - * texlive-latex-base - * texlive-latex-extra - * texlive-latex-recommended - * texlive-science +PDF will be created during the build process if pdflatex is found. -Also the header files are a good source of documentation. +Also, the header files are a good source of documentation. L4 |