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@@ -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: @@ -67,10 +80,10 @@ Issues of note: - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many scripts needed for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "pull"). - - "Perl" 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. + - "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. @@ -122,8 +135,9 @@ Issues of note: 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 "make - ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8. + 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". Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation is available in "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For |