- - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have the
- asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Alternatively, pre-formatted
- documentation are available in "html" and "man" branches of the git
- repository itself. For example, you could:
+ - To build and install documentation suite, you need to have
+ the asciidoc/xmlto toolchain. Because not many people are
+ inclined to install the tools, the default build target
+ ("make all") does _not_ build them.
+
+ Building and installing the info file additionally requires
+ makeinfo and docbook2X. Version 0.8.3 is known to work.
+
+ The documentation is written for AsciiDoc 7, but "make
+ ASCIIDOC8=YesPlease doc" will let you format with AsciiDoc 8.
+
+ Alternatively, pre-formatted documentation are available in
+ "html" and "man" branches of the git repository itself. For
+ example, you could: