From: Micah Cowan Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:49:11 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Minor doc updates. X-Git-Tag: v1.13~236 X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=commitdiff_plain;h=aec2fac89b051dbde2a2dbd2414d73fcce508ea9 Minor doc updates. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 609b4c4e..e23f62b4 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-09-20 Micah Cowan + + * INSTALL: Various minor adjustments to bring it up to date. + 2009-09-09 Micah Cowan * configure.ac: Add bz2 and lzma dists. diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index cfe84890..581ec11b 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -16,9 +16,11 @@ compile Wget from source code on a Unix-like system, read on. The preferred form of building Wget is to get a release archive and unpack it (which you have presumably done, since you are reading -this). If you have obtained the source code via the Subversion +this). If you have obtained the source code via the Mercurial repository, please follow the instructions in `README.checkout' before -continuing. +continuing, as the sources from the Mercurial repository do not include +some files that are present in official distributions; these additional +files must be generated first. 1. Dependencies --------------- @@ -39,6 +41,8 @@ include: - OpenSSL -- for "https" URLs. - GNU gettext -- for translated messages. + - GNU libidn -- for IDN/IRI support. + - GNU libiconv -- for IDN/IRI support (not needed on GNU). To be usable for building Wget, the listed libraries must be installed with their "development" header files. On GNU/Linux systems this @@ -98,6 +102,9 @@ software Wget can link with, such as the SSL libraries. Recognized --disable-largefile omit support for large files --disable-ipv6 disable IPv6 support --disable-rpath do not hardcode runtime library paths + --disable-iri disable IDN/IRIs support + +For the full list, see the output of `./configure --help'. You can inspect decisions made by configure by editing the generated Makefiles and the `src/config.h' include file. The defaults should @@ -117,10 +124,12 @@ invoke configure like this: This assumes that `cc' is in your path -- if it is not, simply use CC=/path/to/cc instead. Note that environment variables that affect -configure can be set with the usual shell syntax `VAR=value -./configure' (assuming sh syntax), but can also be specified as -arguments to configure, as shown above. The latter method, while -being specific to configure, works unmodified in all shells. +configure can be set with the usual shell syntax `VAR=value ./configure' +(assuming sh syntax), but can also be specified as arguments to +configure, as shown above. The latter method, while being specific to +configure, works unmodified in all shells, and in addition allows +configure to detect when that setting has been changed across +invocations. Environment variables that affect `configure' include: CFLAGS for C compiler flags, CPPFLAGS for C preprocessor flags, LDFLAGS for linker diff --git a/README b/README index 4d3ce2f0..7e744547 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ for a detailed listing of all contributions. Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 -2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by