From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff S <acornblue@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re* OS X Yosemite make all doc fails
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:42:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmvxe2bgo.fsf_-_@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJD5XBze8S23umS5enPaOKF6RFKwqkY-ZyuAfLG4SBp8CbCeRg@mail.gmail.com> (Jeff S.'s message of "Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:20:02 -0700")
Jeff S <acornblue@gmail•com> writes:
> Brian thanks for responding! I'm finally able to build git completely.
> Would it be possible to add the OS X dependency to the git/INSTALL
> file?
>
> OSX Yosemite 10.10.5
> Xcode 6.4 (6E35b)
> …
> $ brew install autoconf
> $ brew install asciidoc
> $ brew install xmlto
> $ brew install docbook
> $ export XML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/local/etc/xml/catalog
> $ brew install docbook-xsl
It may not be a bad idea to add a whole section at the end of the
document to list the prerequisite packages for various common
platforms, whose beginning perhaps would look like this?
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ffb071e..84fa5cf 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -221,3 +221,23 @@ Issues of note:
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/xsl/current \
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5 \
/etc/xml/catalog
+
+
+Platform specific hints:
+
+You would need to install prerequiste tools and libraries to compile
+and use Git from the source.
+
+ - OSX needs the following packages installed with 'brew install'
+ (in addition to the usual make and C compiler suite):
+
+ autoconf, asciidoc, xmlto, docbook, docbook-xsl
+
+ - Linux distributions derived from Debian need the following packages
+ instaslled via 'apt-get install' or similar (in addition to the
+ usual 'make' and C compiler suite that come as part of
+ build-essential):
+
+ autoconf, asciidoc, xmlto, docbook, libz-dev, livcurl4-openssl-dev,
+ ...
+
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2015-08-24 9:30 ` OS X Yosemite make all doc fails Jeff S
2015-08-25 1:04 ` brian m. carlson
2015-08-26 0:20 ` Jeff S
2015-08-26 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-08-26 19:40 ` Re* " Torsten Bögershausen
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