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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2003-08-29 19:05:39 +0000
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2003-08-29 19:05:39 +0000
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@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-
Installing nasm from source
===========================
-Installing nasm is pretty straightforward on UN*X systems with GNU tools installed.
+Installing nasm is pretty straightforward on UN*X systems with Perl
+and GNU tools installed.
-If you checked out source from CVS you will need to run autoconf to generate configure,
-otherwise you don't have to.
+If you checked out source from CVS you will need to run autoconf to
+generate configure, otherwise you don't have to.
$ autoconf
@@ -13,30 +13,32 @@ Then run configure to detect your platform settings and generate makefiles.
$ ./configure
-You can get information about available configuration options by running `./configure --help`.
+You can get information about available configuration options by
+running `./configure --help`.
-If configure fails, please send bug report with detailed platform information to
-<nasm-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net> and we will try to help you asap!
+If configure fails, please send bug report with detailed platform
+information to <nasm-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net> and we will try to
+help you asap!
If everything went okay, type
$ make
-to build nasm, ndisasm and rdoff tools
-or
+to build nasm, ndisasm and rdoff tools, or
$ make everything
to build the former plus the docs.
-You can decrease the size of produces executables by stripping off unnecessary information, to
-achieve this run
+You can decrease the size of produces executables by stripping off
+unnecessary information, to achieve this run
$ make strip
-If you install to a system-wide location you might need to become root:
-$ su
-<enter root password>
+If you install to a system-wide location you might need to become
+root:
+
+$ su <enter root password>
then