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1 files changed, 51 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -38,13 +38,17 @@ Issues of note: 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 - wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git - commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to - arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their - friends will be found in your built source area instead of at - their standard installation area. Something like this works - for me: + - 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 As a historical reference, the + old way went like this: GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd` PATH=`pwd`:$PATH @@ -63,10 +67,10 @@ Issues of note: - A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run many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. @@ -118,8 +122,9 @@ 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 @@ -153,3 +158,36 @@ Issues of note: 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 |