-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.10 2015/03/09 21:00:14 schwarze Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.23 2019/03/06 15:58:10 schwarze Exp $
+
+About the portable mandoc distribution
+--------------------------------------
+The mandoc manpage compiler toolset (formerly called "mdocml")
+is a suite of tools compiling mdoc(7), the roff(7) macro language
+of choice for BSD manual pages, and man(7), the predominant
+historical language for UNIX manuals.
-About mdocml, the portable mandoc distribution
-----------------------------------------------
-The mandoc manpage compiler toolset is a suite of tools compiling
-mdoc(7), the roff(7) macro language of choice for BSD manual pages,
-and man(7), the predominant historical language for UNIX manuals.
It includes a man(1) manual viewer and additional tools.
-For general information, see <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/>.
+For general information, see <http://mandoc.bsd.lv/>.
In case you have questions or want to provide feedback, read
-<http://mdocml.bsd.lv/contact.html>. Consider subscribing to the
+<http://mandoc.bsd.lv/contact.html>. Consider subscribing to the
discuss@ mailing list mentioned on that page. If you intend to
help with the development of mandoc, consider subscribing to the
tech@ mailing list, too.
Enjoy using the mandoc toolset!
-Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, March 2015
+Ingo Schwarze, Karlsruhe, March 2019
Installation
whether the newest version of mandoc is already installed by default
or available via a binary package or a ports system. A list of the
latest bundled and ported versions of mandoc for various operating
-systems is maintained at <http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ports.html>.
+systems is maintained at <http://mandoc.bsd.lv/ports.html>.
Regarding how packages and ports are maintained for your operating
system, please consult your operating system documentation.
To install mandoc manually, the following steps are needed:
-1. If you want to build the CGI program, man.cgi(8), too, run the
-command "echo BUILD_CGI=1 > configure.local". Then run "cp
-cgi.h.examples cgi.h" and edit cgi.h as desired.
+1. If you want to build the CGI program, man.cgi(8), too,
+run the command "echo BUILD_CGI=1 >> configure.local".
+Then run "cp cgi.h.example cgi.h" and edit cgi.h as desired.
+
+2. If you also want to build the catman(8) utility, run the
+command "echo BUILD_CATMAN=1 >> configure.local". Note that it
+is unlikely to be a drop-in replacement providing the same
+functionality as your system's "catman", if your operating
+system contains one.
-2. Run "./configure".
+3. Define MANPATH_DEFAULT in configure.local
+if /usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man is not appropriate
+for your operating system.
+
+4. Run "./configure".
This script attempts autoconfiguration of mandoc for your system.
Read both its standard output and the file "Makefile.local" it
generates. If anything looks wrong or different from what you
a file "configure.local", and re-run "./configure" until the
result seems right to you.
-3. Run "make".
+5. Run "make".
Any POSIX-compatible make, in particular both BSD make and GNU make,
should work. If the build fails, look at "configure.local.example"
and go back to step 2.
-4. Run "make -n install" and check whether everything will be
+6. Run "make -n install" and check whether everything will be
installed to the intended places. Otherwise, put some *DIR or *NM*
-variables into "configure.local" and go back to step 2.
+variables into "configure.local" and go back to step 4.
+
+7. Optionally run the regression suite.
+Basically, that amounts to "cd regress && ./regress.pl".
+But you should probably look at "./mandoc -l regress/regress.pl.1"
+first. In particular, regarding Solaris systems, look at the BUGS
+section of that manual page.
-5. Run "sudo make install". If you intend to build a binary
+8. Run "sudo make install". If you intend to build a binary
package using some kind of fake root mechanism, you may need a
command like "make DESTDIR=... install". Read the *-install targets
in the "Makefile" to understand how DESTDIR is used.
-6. If you want to use the integrated man(1) and your system uses
-manpath(1), make sure it is configured correctly, in particular,
-it returns all directory trees where manual pages are installed.
-Otherwise, if your system uses man.conf(5), make sure it contains
-a "_whatdb" line for each directory tree, and the order of these
-lines meets your wishes.
+9. Run the command "sudo makewhatis" to build mandoc.db(5) databases
+in all the directory trees configured in step 3. Whenever installing
+new manual pages, re-run makewhatis(8) to update the databases, or
+apropos(1) will not find the new pages.
-7. If you compiled with database support, run the command "sudo
-makewhatis" to build mandoc.db(5) databases in all the directory
-trees configured in step 6. Whenever installing new manual pages,
-re-run makewhatis(8) to update the databases, or apropos(1) will
-not find the new pages.
+10. To set up a man.cgi(8) server, read its manual page.
-8. To set up a man.cgi(8) server, read its manual page.
-
-Note that some man(7) pages may contain low-level roff(7) markup
-that mandoc does not yet understand. On some BSD systems using
-mandoc, third-party software is vetted on whether it may be formatted
-with mandoc. If not, groff(1) is pulled in as a dependency and
-used to install a pre-formatted "catpage" instead of directly as
-manual page source.
+Note that a very small number of man(7) pages contain low-level
+roff(7) markup that mandoc does not yet understand. On some BSD
+systems using mandoc, third-party software is vetted on whether it
+may be formatted with mandoc. If not, groff(1) is pulled in as a
+dependency and used to install pre-formatted "catpages" instead of
+manual page sources. This mechanism is used much less frequently
+than in the past. On OpenBSD, only 25 out of about 10000 ports
+still require formatting with groff(1).
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:
-
-1. The SQLite database system, see <http://sqlite.org/>.
-The recommended version of SQLite is 3.8.4.3 or newer. The mandoc
-toolset is known to work with version 3.7.5 or newer. Versions
-older than 3.8.3 may not achieve full performance due to the
-missing SQLITE_DETERMINISTIC optimization flag. Versions older
-than 3.8.0 may not show full error information if opening a database
-fails due to the missing sqlite3_errstr() API. Both are very minor
-problems, apropos(1) is fully usable with SQLite 3.7.5. Versions
-older than 3.7.5 may or may not work, they have not been tested.
+The following libraries are required:
+
+1. zlib for decompressing gzipped manual pages.
2. The fts(3) directory traversion functions.
If your system does not have them, the bundled compatibility version
-will be used, so you need not worry in that case. But be careful: the
-glibc version of fts(3) is known to be broken on 32bit platforms,
-see <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15838>.
+will be used, so you need not worry in that case. But be careful: old
+glibc versions of fts(3) were known to be broken on 32bit platforms,
+see <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11460>.
+That was presumably fixed in glibc-2.23.
If you run into that problem, set "HAVE_FTS=0" in configure.local.
3. Marc Espie's ohash(3) library.
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
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