commit 95253231e873684937caf5df119917cecb2ff5fc
parent eb5968f845c88d8e801618045b1bcc092a655604
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 18:01:40 +0100
docs: mention that libncursesw5-dev is needed for building from git
In addition, tweak some of the wording.
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.GIT b/README.GIT
@@ -1,39 +1,42 @@
-INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPILE AND INSTALL NANO GIT VERSIONS
-=====================================================
+INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPILING AND INSTALLING NANO FROM GIT
+=======================================================
-The latest version of GNU nano is available via git, but building this needs
-a bit more care than the official stable and unstable tarballs.
+The latest changes and fixes for GNU nano are available via git, but
+building this needs a bit more care than the official tarballs.
Prerequisites
-------------
-To successfully compile GNU nano from the git repo, you'll need the following
+To successfully compile GNU nano from git, you'll need the following
packages:
- autoconf (version >= 2.61)
- automake (version >= 1.7)
+- autopoint (version >= 0.11.5)
- gettext (version >= 0.11.5)
- git (version >= 2.7.4)
- groff (version >= 1.12)
- pkg-config (version >= 0.22)
- texinfo (version >= 4.0)
-- glib 2.x (in case your system doesn't have vsnprintf(), which the
- configure script will check for)
-- make, gcc, and
-- the normal development libraries (curses or slang, etc.)
+- gcc (any version)
+- make (any version)
+
+If you want UTF-8 support, you will also need libncursesw5-dev installed
+(version >= 5.7, or something equivalent if you use --with-slang).
+If your system doesn't have 'vsnprintf' (which the configure script will
+check for), you will also need glib-2.x installed.
These should all be available in your distro's package manager or software
-center, or otherwise on any GNU mirror. Note that you'll need a version of
-curses or slang with wide character support if you want nano to use UTF-8.
+center, or otherwise on any GNU mirror.
Download the source
-------------------
-To obtain the current nano development code (called 'master', or sometimes
-'trunk'), use the following command. It will create a copy of the files in
-a subdirectory of your current working directory called 'nano':
+To obtain the current nano development branch (called 'master'), use the
+following command. It will create in your current working directory a
+subdirectory called 'nano' containing a copy of all of the files:
$ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/nano.git nano
