Ion
===
-Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2007.
+Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2008.
tuomov at iki.fi
Building and installing
-----------------------
-1. Make sure you have the following tools and libraries installed:
+1. Make sure you have the following tools and libraries installed (along
+ with, of course, standard X11 and libc stuff).
- * GNU make
- * Lua 5.1 (see <http://www.lua.org/>).
+ * GNU make <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
+ * Lua 5.1 <http://www.lua.org/>
+ * gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
-2. a) Edit `system.mk` to suit your system. Most GNU/Linux users should
- need very few changes.
-
- b) Alternatively, go to the directory `build/ac`, run `autoreconf`
- and then `./configure`. Switch back to the top lvel directory
- afterwards. See `build/ac/README.autoconf` for details on parameters,
- especially if you are using the Debian Lua packages. If you try
- this method and it fails for some reason, please make sure
- `build/ac/system-ac.mk` does not exist before falling back to
- alternative a). Also in such a case, find someone else to complain
- to: I (tuomov) will have nothing to do with autoconf.
+2. Edit `system.mk` to suit your system.
3. If you want to build some extra modules now or do not want to build
some of the standard modules, edit `modulelist.mk`.
15 05 * * * $SHAREDIR/ion-completeman -mksyscache
- Replace `$SHAREDIR` with the setting from `system.mk` (or `system-ac.mk`
- if you used autoconf). This example runs daily at 05:15, but you may
- modify the run times to your needs; see the crontab manual.
+ Replace `$SHAREDIR` with the setting from `system.mk`. This example
+ runs daily at 05:15, but you may modify the run times to your needs;
+ see the crontab manual.
If you can't or do not want to build a system-wide man page cache, run
`crontab -e` as your normal user and replace `-mksyscache` with
`-mk*cache` argument once manually to build the initial cache.
If the `MANPATH` environment variable is not set on your system and it
- does not have the `manpath` command (or it does not print anything
+ does not have the `manpath` command (or it does not print anything
sensible), you may also want to set the `ION_MANPATH` environment
variable to the list of paths where the system stores manual pages.
Ion was written by Tuomo Valkonen.
-The autoconf script written by Tom Payne for the most part.
-
The dock module was written by Tom Payne and Per Olofsson.
`utils/ion-completefile/ion-completefile.c` is based on editline, (c)
1992 Simmule Turner and Rich Salz. See the file for details.
-The code that `de/fontset.c` is based on was apparently originally
-written by Tomohiro Kubota; see
-<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-examples.en.html#s13.4.5>.
+The code that `de/fontset.c` is based on seems to have been originally
+written by Tomohiro Kubota, but see the file for details.
Various (minor) patches have been contributed by other individuals
unlisted here. See the mailing list archives and the darcs source