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- GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.7
- ***************************
-
- This file documents the install steps that are specific to the GIT package:
-
-
- 1. The GIT package uses the 'configure' script to guess your system
- features. The 'configure' script was generated from the file
- configure.in (available in the package) using the autoconf utility
- version 1.11. To install the GIT package just type:
- ./configure
- make
- make info // don't bother if it fails
- make install
- The configure script first check for the termcap library. If the
- termcap library is not found, some terminfo libraries will be
- searched: ncurses, curses, termlib, tinfo, terminfo. If you want to
- change this default behavior and search for terminfo libraries
- before searching the termcap library, run
- ./configure --enable-terminfo
- instead of
- ./configure
-
- For more information about the 'configure' script please read the
- INSTALL file in this directory.
-
- 2. There are many configuration files in GIT:
- a. .gitrc.generic - generic configuration file
- b. .gitrc.console - Linux console configuration file
- c. .gitrc.vt100 - vt100 configuration file
- d. .gitrc.vt102 - vt102 configuration file (same as vt100)
- e. .gitrc.xterm - xterm configuration file
- f. .gitrc.hpterm - hpterm configuration file
- g. .gitrc.aixterm - aixpterm configuration file
- h. .gitrc.vtty - vtty configuration file (thix)
-
- When git/gitps/gitview are started, they search a file named
- .gitrc.TERM first in the home directory and then in the
- $(prefix)/lib directory (usually /usr/local/lib) (see INSTALL).
- (TERM is the value of your 'TERM' environment variable, e.g. vt102.
- If TERM=vt102, your configuration file should be .gitrc.vt102). The
- package contains many predefined configuration files but, if you
- are using a different terminal type then you can easy create a
- configuration file for it renaming / modifying one of them. Put
- a suitable configuration file in your home directory if you want to
- overwrite the default configuration file. If you don't have a
- configuration file for your terminal, .gitrc.generic will be used.
- If your terminal supports standard ANSI color sequences, set
- AnsiColorSequences to ON in the [Setup] section of .gitrc.TERM.
- Otherwise, AnsiColorSequences should be OFF.
-
- 3. Make the directories /mnt/fd0 and /mnt/fd1 (for mounting floppy
- disks with gitmount (an auto-mount script). This is for Linux, on
- other systems might be different.
-
- 4. Read the .gitrc.TERM files to find out how to configure GIT's
- colors, keys ...
-
- 5. If you are using termcap and your system has a huge termcap data-
- base, copy the descriptions of your terminal(s) in a file and put
- that file into your home directory. After that, set your TERMCAP
- environment variable to point to it. If your login name is mike and
- the file you have just created is .termcap, you must append
- something like this to your .profile :
-
- TERMCAP=/home/mike/.termcap
-
- This will speed up GIT at startup.
-
- If you are using terminfo, don't bother.
-
- 6. In order to be able to read the Info documentation you should
- append the git.dir file (found in the package) to the file
- /usr/info/dir (this works for Linux; on other systems the main Info
- directory could be different). This is *NOT* done by 'make install'.
-
- 7. Read the man page or the info documentation.
-
-
-
- Good luck !
- Tudor & Andi
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- Please send bug reports to tudor@chang.pub.ro
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