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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Id: INSTALL,v 1.15 2016/07/14 11:09:06 schwarze Exp $ +$Id: INSTALL,v 1.16 2016/07/19 21:31:55 schwarze Exp $ About mdocml, the portable mandoc distribution ---------------------------------------------- @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Otherwise, if your system uses man.conf(5), make sure it contains a "manpath" line for each directory tree, and the order of these lines meets your wishes. -7. If you compiled with database support, run the command "sudo +7. 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 @@ -84,20 +84,9 @@ manual page source. Understanding mandoc dependencies --------------------------------- -The mandoc(1), man(1), and demandoc(1) utilities only depend -on the zlib library for decompressing gzipped manual pages, -but makewhatis(8) and apropos(1) depend on the following -additional 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 |