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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bf0d97ef76 --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL @@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ + + Git installation + +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 info ;# as yourself + # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html 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, +which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr +install" would not work. + +The beginning of the Makefile documents many variables that affect the way +git is built. You can override them either from the command line, or in a +config.mak file. + +Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to +set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead + + $ make configure ;# as yourself + $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself + $ make all doc ;# as yourself + # make install install-doc install-html;# as root + +If you're willing to trade off (much) longer build time for a later +faster git you can also do a profile feedback build with + + $ make profile-all + # make prefix=... install + +This will run the complete test suite as training workload and then +rebuild git with the generated profile feedback. This results in a git +which is a few percent faster on CPU intensive workloads. This +may be a good tradeoff for distribution packagers. + +Note that the profile feedback build stage currently generates +a lot of additional compiler warnings. + +Issues of note: + + - Ancient versions of GNU Interactive Tools (pre-4.9.2) installed a + program "git", whose name conflicts with this program. But with + version 4.9.2, after long hiatus without active maintenance (since + around 1997), it changed its name to gnuit and the name conflict is no + longer a problem. + + NOTE: When compiled with backward compatibility option, the GNU + Interactive Tools package still can install "git", but you can build it + with --disable-transition option to avoid this. + + - You can use git after building but without installing if you want + to test drive it. Simply run git found in bin-wrappers directory + in the build directory, or prepend that directory to your $PATH. + This however is less efficient than running an installed git, as + you always need an extra fork+exec to run any git subcommand. + + It is still possible to use git without installing by setting a few + environment variables, which was the way this was done + traditionally. But using git found in bin-wrappers directory in + the build directory is far simpler. As a historical reference, the + old way went like this: + + GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd` + PATH=`pwd`:$PATH + GITPERLLIB=`pwd`/perl/blib/lib + export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB + + - Git is reasonably self-sufficient, but does depend on a few external + programs and libraries. Git can be used without most of them by adding + the approriate "NO_<LIBRARY>=YesPlease" to the make command line or + config.mak file. + + - "zlib", the compression library. Git won't build without it. + + - "ssh" is used to push and pull over the net. + + - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed + for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull"). + + - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the + features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p", + interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can + live without these, use NO_PERL. + + - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL. + If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL. + + By default, git uses OpenSSL for SHA1 but it will use it's own + library (inspired by Mozilla's) with either NO_OPENSSL or + BLK_SHA1. Also included is a version optimized for PowerPC + (PPC_SHA1). + + - "libcurl" library is used by git-http-fetch and git-fetch. You + might also want the "curl" executable for debugging purposes. + If you do not use http:// or https:// repositories, you do not + have to have them (use NO_CURL). + + - "expat" library; git-http-push uses it for remote lock + management over DAV. Similar to "curl" above, this is optional + (with NO_EXPAT). + + - "wish", the Tcl/Tk windowing shell is used in gitk to show the + history graphically, and in git-gui. If you don't want gitk or + git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK. + + - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules, + but depending on your specific installation, you may not + have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have + necessary libraries at unusual locations. Please look at the + top of the Makefile to see what can be adjusted for your needs. + You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile + will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed; + the name is reserved for local settings. + + - 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. + + "make doc" builds documentation in man and html formats; there are + also "make man", "make html" and "make info". Note that "make html" + requires asciidoc, but not xmlto. "make man" (and thus make doc) + requires both. + + "make install-doc" installs documentation in man format only; there + are also "make install-man", "make install-html" and "make + install-info". + + Building and installing the info file additionally requires + makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work. + + Building and installing the pdf file additionally requires + dblatex. Version 0.2.7 with asciidoc >= 8.2.7 is known to work. + + The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but by default + uses some compatibility wrappers to work on AsciiDoc 8. If you have + AsciiDoc 7, try "make ASCIIDOC7=YesPlease". + + There are also "make quick-install-doc", "make quick-install-man" + and "make quick-install-html" which install preformatted man pages + and html documentation. To use these build targets, you need to + clone two separate git-htmldocs and git-manpages repositories next + to the clone of git itself. + + 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 + + Users attempting to build the documentation on Cygwin may need to ensure + that the /etc/xml/catalog file looks something like this: + + <?xml version="1.0"?> + <!DOCTYPE catalog PUBLIC + "-//OASIS//DTD Entity Resolution XML Catalog V1.0//EN" + "http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd" + > + <catalog xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:entity:xmlns:xml:catalog"> + <rewriteURI + uriStartString = "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current" + rewritePrefix = "/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets" + /> + <rewriteURI + uriStartString="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5" + rewritePrefix="/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5" + /> + </catalog> + + This can be achieved with the following two xmlcatalog commands: + + xmlcatalog --noout \ + --add rewriteURI \ + http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current \ + /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets \ + /etc/xml/catalog + + xmlcatalog --noout \ + --add rewriteURI \ + http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/xsl/current \ + /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5 \ + /etc/xml/catalog |