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authorLuke Shumaker <lukeshu@sbcglobal.net>2016-04-18 19:48:10 -0400
committerLuke Shumaker <lukeshu@sbcglobal.net>2016-04-18 19:48:10 -0400
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treee2acc5062ca13b1208299774b5ff23487ec8e2ea /INSTALL
parent4324e0063a0293de4634f2368439640534610a85 (diff)
improve INSTALL documentation
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-Installation of libretools is pretty straight-forward. The only
-tricky thing is the weird dependence on the devtools-par source code.
-
-The build system will by default look at `$(topdir)/../devtools-par`
-for the devtools-par source code. This can be changed by adjusting
-the `devtoolsdir` configuration variable, see "Configuration" below.
-
-Once you have the devtools source taken care of, you can have the
-default everything-included install by running:
+Installation of libretools is pretty straight-forward:
$ make
# make install
+As a caveat, by default, if the directory `devtools-par` exists in the
+same directory as the `libretools-${version}` directory, and contains
+newer files than the libretools directory, they will be copied into
+the libretools directory. See INSTALL-VCS for more details.
+
Dependencies
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