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| author | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-01-20 09:50:54 +0000 |
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| committer | gjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org> | 2016-01-20 09:50:54 +0000 |
| commit | 37e4197e4f1c5dfdc9f6f47c3e2eaa08db678932 (patch) | |
| tree | b62bad40f6761e8b139ebb94b63befbbbfc84604 /contrib/mdocml/INSTALL | |
| parent | 97d822085265f5640a3640a45f0df10d55dad4b1 (diff) | |
| parent | 698583cc5f183065a9346fa8f3ded4bb29671987 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/contrib/mdocml/INSTALL b/contrib/mdocml/INSTALL index eb8b5dd..085fb3e 100644 --- a/contrib/mdocml/INSTALL +++ b/contrib/mdocml/INSTALL @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.10 2015/03/09 21:00:14 schwarze Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.13 2015/11/07 14:01:16 schwarze Exp $ About mdocml, the portable mandoc distribution ---------------------------------------------- @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ generates. If anything looks wrong or different from what you wish, read the file "configure.local.example", create and edit a file "configure.local", and re-run "./configure" until the result seems right to you. +On Solaris 10 and earlier, you may have to run "ksh ./configure" +because the native /bin/sh lacks some POSIX features. 3. Run "make". Any POSIX-compatible make, in particular both BSD make and GNU make, @@ -82,9 +84,10 @@ manual page source. Understanding mandoc dependencies --------------------------------- -The mandoc(1), man(1), and demandoc(1) utilities have no external -dependencies, but makewhatis(8) and apropos(1) depend on the -following software: +The mandoc(1), man(1), and demandoc(1) utilities only depend +on the zlib library for decompressing gzipped manual pages, +but makewhatis(8) and apropos(1) depend on the following +additional software: 1. The SQLite database system, see <http://sqlite.org/>. The recommended version of SQLite is 3.8.4.3 or newer. The mandoc @@ -107,6 +110,11 @@ If you run into that problem, set "HAVE_FTS=0" in configure.local. If your system does not have it, the bundled compatibility version will be used, so you probably need not worry about it. +One of the chief design goals of the mandoc toolbox is to make +sure that nothing related to documentation requires C++. +Consequently, linking mandoc against any kind of C++ program +would defeat the purpose and is not supported. + Checking autoconfiguration quality ---------------------------------- |
