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1.15    ! schwarze    1: $Id: INSTALL,v 1.14 2016/07/07 23:46:36 schwarze Exp $
1.1       schwarze    2:
1.2       schwarze    3: About mdocml, the portable mandoc distribution
                      4: ----------------------------------------------
1.1       schwarze    5: The mandoc manpage compiler toolset is a suite of tools compiling
                      6: mdoc(7), the roff(7) macro language of choice for BSD manual pages,
                      7: and man(7), the predominant historical language for UNIX manuals.
1.10      schwarze    8: It includes a man(1) manual viewer and additional tools.
1.2       schwarze    9: For general information, see <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/>.
                     10:
                     11: In case you have questions or want to provide feedback, read
                     12: <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/contact.html>.  Consider subscribing to the
                     13: discuss@ mailing list mentioned on that page.  If you intend to
                     14: help with the development of mandoc, consider subscribing to the
                     15: tech@ mailing list, too.
                     16:
                     17: Enjoy using the mandoc toolset!
                     18:
1.15    ! schwarze   19: Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, July 2016
1.2       schwarze   20:
1.1       schwarze   21:
1.2       schwarze   22: Installation
                     23: ------------
1.1       schwarze   24: Before manually installing mandoc on your system, please check
                     25: whether the newest version of mandoc is already installed by default
                     26: or available via a binary package or a ports system.  A list of the
                     27: latest bundled and ported versions of mandoc for various operating
1.2       schwarze   28: systems is maintained at <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports.html>.
1.1       schwarze   29:
1.2       schwarze   30: Regarding how packages and ports are maintained for your operating
                     31: system, please consult your operating system documentation.
                     32: To install mandoc manually, the following steps are needed:
1.1       schwarze   33:
1.4       schwarze   34: 1. If you want to build the CGI program, man.cgi(8), too, run the
1.5       kristaps   35: command "echo BUILD_CGI=1 > configure.local".  Then run "cp
                     36: cgi.h.examples cgi.h" and edit cgi.h as desired.
1.1       schwarze   37:
1.4       schwarze   38: 2. Run "./configure".
                     39: This script attempts autoconfiguration of mandoc for your system.
                     40: Read both its standard output and the file "Makefile.local" it
                     41: generates.  If anything looks wrong or different from what you
                     42: wish, read the file "configure.local.example", create and edit
                     43: a file "configure.local", and re-run "./configure" until the
                     44: result seems right to you.
1.11      schwarze   45: On Solaris 10 and earlier, you may have to run "ksh ./configure"
                     46: because the native /bin/sh lacks some POSIX features.
1.4       schwarze   47:
                     48: 3. Run "make".
                     49: Any POSIX-compatible make, in particular both BSD make and GNU make,
                     50: should work.  If the build fails, look at "configure.local.example"
                     51: and go back to step 2.
                     52:
                     53: 4. Run "make -n install" and check whether everything will be
1.7       schwarze   54: installed to the intended places.  Otherwise, put some *DIR or *NM*
1.14      schwarze   55: variables into "configure.local" and go back to step 2.
1.4       schwarze   56:
                     57: 5. Run "sudo make install".  If you intend to build a binary
                     58: package using some kind of fake root mechanism, you may need a
                     59: command like "make DESTDIR=... install".  Read the *-install targets
                     60: in the "Makefile" to understand how DESTDIR is used.
                     61:
1.10      schwarze   62: 6. If you want to use the integrated man(1) and your system uses
                     63: manpath(1), make sure it is configured correctly, in particular,
                     64: it returns all directory trees where manual pages are installed.
                     65: Otherwise, if your system uses man.conf(5), make sure it contains
1.14      schwarze   66: a "manpath" line for each directory tree, and the order of these
1.10      schwarze   67: lines meets your wishes.
                     68:
                     69: 7. If you compiled with database support, run the command "sudo
                     70: makewhatis" to build mandoc.db(5) databases in all the directory
                     71: trees configured in step 6.  Whenever installing new manual pages,
                     72: re-run makewhatis(8) to update the databases, or apropos(1) will
                     73: not find the new pages.
                     74:
                     75: 8. To set up a man.cgi(8) server, read its manual page.
                     76:
                     77: Note that some man(7) pages may contain low-level roff(7) markup
                     78: that mandoc does not yet understand.  On some BSD systems using
                     79: mandoc, third-party software is vetted on whether it may be formatted
                     80: with mandoc.  If not, groff(1) is pulled in as a dependency and
                     81: used to install a pre-formatted "catpage" instead of directly as
                     82: manual page source.
1.4       schwarze   83:
                     84:
                     85: Understanding mandoc dependencies
                     86: ---------------------------------
1.12      schwarze   87: The mandoc(1), man(1), and demandoc(1) utilities only depend
                     88: on the zlib library for decompressing gzipped manual pages,
                     89: but makewhatis(8) and apropos(1) depend on the following
                     90: additional software:
1.4       schwarze   91:
                     92: 1. The SQLite database system, see <http://sqlite.org/>.
1.1       schwarze   93: The recommended version of SQLite is 3.8.4.3 or newer.  The mandoc
                     94: toolset is known to work with version 3.7.5 or newer.  Versions
                     95: older than 3.8.3 may not achieve full performance due to the
                     96: missing SQLITE_DETERMINISTIC optimization flag.  Versions older
                     97: than 3.8.0 may not show full error information if opening a database
                     98: fails due to the missing sqlite3_errstr() API.  Both are very minor
1.2       schwarze   99: problems, apropos(1) is fully usable with SQLite 3.7.5.  Versions
                    100: older than 3.7.5 may or may not work, they have not been tested.
                    101:
1.7       schwarze  102: 2. The fts(3) directory traversion functions.
1.3       schwarze  103: If your system does not have them, the bundled compatibility version
                    104: will be used, so you need not worry in that case.  But be careful: the
1.2       schwarze  105: glibc version of fts(3) is known to be broken on 32bit platforms,
                    106: see <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15838>.
1.4       schwarze  107: If you run into that problem, set "HAVE_FTS=0" in configure.local.
1.2       schwarze  108:
1.7       schwarze  109: 3. Marc Espie's ohash(3) library.
1.2       schwarze  110: If your system does not have it, the bundled compatibility version
1.1       schwarze  111: will be used, so you probably need not worry about it.
1.13      schwarze  112:
                    113: One of the chief design goals of the mandoc toolbox is to make
                    114: sure that nothing related to documentation requires C++.
                    115: Consequently, linking mandoc against any kind of C++ program
                    116: would defeat the purpose and is not supported.
1.1       schwarze  117:
                    118:
1.2       schwarze  119: Checking autoconfiguration quality
                    120: ----------------------------------
1.1       schwarze  121: If you want to check whether automatic configuration works well
                    122: on your platform, consider the following:
                    123:
                    124: The mandoc package intentionally does not use GNU autoconf because
                    125: we consider that toolset a blatant example of overengineering that
                    126: is obsolete nowadays, since all modern operating systems are now
                    127: reasonably close to POSIX and do not need arcane shell magic any
                    128: longer.  If your system does need such magic, consider upgrading
                    129: to reasonably modern POSIX-compliant tools rather than asking for
                    130: autoconf-style workarounds.
                    131:
                    132: As far as mandoc is using any features not mandated by ANSI X3.159-1989
                    133: ("ANSI C") or IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 ("POSIX") that some modern systems
                    134: do not have, we intend to provide autoconfiguration tests and
                    135: compat_*.c implementations.  Please report any that turn out to be
                    136: missing.  Note that while we do strive to produce portable code,
                    137: we do not slavishly restrict ourselves to POSIX-only interfaces.
                    138: For improved security and readability, we do use well-designed,
                    139: modern interfaces like reallocarray(3) even if they are still rather
                    140: uncommon, of course bundling compat_*.c implementations as needed.
                    141:
                    142: Where mandoc is using ANSI C or POSIX features that some systems
                    143: still lack and that compat_*.c implementations can be provided for
                    144: without too much hassle, we will consider adding them, too, so
                    145: please report whatever is missing on your platform.
                    146:
                    147: The following steps can be used to manually check the automatic
                    148: configuration on your platform:
                    149:
1.4       schwarze  150: 1. Run "make distclean".
1.1       schwarze  151:
1.4       schwarze  152: 2. Run "./configure"
1.1       schwarze  153:
                    154: 3. Read the file "config.log".  It shows the compiler commands used
                    155: to test the libraries installed on your system and the standard
                    156: output and standard error output these commands produce.  Watch out
                    157: for unexpected failures.  Those are most likely to happen if headers
                    158: or libraries are installed in unusual places or interfaces defined
                    159: in unusual headers.  You can also look at the file "config.h" and
1.4       schwarze  160: check that no "#define HAVE_*" differ from your expectations.

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