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1 files changed, 33 insertions, 27 deletions
@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead $ 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: @@ -70,7 +83,11 @@ Issues of note: - "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. + live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of + Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some + core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/), + so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl + itself, e.g. Time::HiRes. - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL. If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL. @@ -93,6 +110,18 @@ Issues of note: history graphically, and in git-gui. If you don't want gitk or git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK. + - A gettext library is used by default for localizing Git. The + primary target is GNU libintl, but the Solaris gettext + implementation also works. + + We need a gettext.h on the system for C code, gettext.sh (or + Solaris gettext(1)) for shell scripts, and libintl-perl for Perl + programs. + + Set NO_GETTEXT to disable localization support and make Git only + use English. Under autoconf the configure script will do this + automatically if it can't find libintl on the system. + - 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 @@ -126,34 +155,11 @@ Issues of note: uses some compatibility wrappers to work on AsciiDoc 8. If you have AsciiDoc 7, try "make ASCIIDOC7=YesPlease". - Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in - "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For - example, you could: - - $ mkdir manual && cd manual - $ git init - $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html | - while read a b - do - echo $a >.git/$b - done - $ cp .git/refs/heads/man .git/refs/heads/master - $ git checkout - - to checkout the pre-built man pages. Also in this repository: - - $ git checkout html - - would instead give you a copy of what you see at: - - http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ - There are also "make quick-install-doc", "make quick-install-man" and "make quick-install-html" which install preformatted man pages - and html documentation. - This does not require asciidoc/xmlto, but it only works from within - a cloned checkout of git.git with these two extra branches, and will - not work for the maintainer for obvious chicken-and-egg reasons. + 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 |