Branch: refs/heads/master Author: Colomban Wendling ban@herbesfolles.org Committer: Colomban Wendling ban@herbesfolles.org Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 11:50:57 UTC Commit: cf631fb2571f8bb6b889070019f3cf91007a8999 https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/cf631fb2571f8bb6b889070019f3cf91007a89...

Log Message: ----------- README: Extend build instructions

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Modified: README 42 lines changed, 30 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) =================================================================== @@ -40,18 +40,36 @@ GNU versions of these tools are recommended.

Installation ------------ -Installing Geany is done by the following three commands: -$ ./configure -$ make -(as root) -% make install - -If you are building from a Git clone rather than a source tarball, you need -to run ./autogen.sh first, after having installed GLib's development files. -You will also need rst2html from Docutils to build the documentation. - -For more configuration details run -$ ./configure --help + +To build the user manual you need *rst2html* from Docutils. A pre-built +version of the manual is available in distribution tarballs and will be used as +fallback if *rst2html* is missing. When building from Git however, that +pre-built version is not included and *rst2html* is required by default. +You can explicitly disable building the user manual using the +``--disable-html-docs`` *configure* flag, but this will result in not +installing a local version of the user manual, and Geany will then try +and open the online version instead when requested. + +Installing from a Git clone ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +Install Autotools (*automake*, *autoconf* and *libtool*), *intltool*, +and the GLib development files **before** running any of the following +commands, as well as *rst2html* from Docutils (see above for details). +Then, run ``./autogen.sh`` and then follow the instructions for +`installing from a release tarball`_. + +Installing from a release tarball ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + +Run the the following three commands:: + + $ ./configure + $ make + (as root, or using sudo) + % make install + +For more configuration details run ``./configure --help``

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