If you obtained a source tarball, just use the standard autotools
commands::
- $ ./configure && make && make install
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ $ make install
+
+To run the test suite, invoke::
+
+ $ make check
If the source has been checked out from a Git repository, the
./configure script has to be generated fist. The easiest way is to use
$ autoreconf -i
-To run the test suite, invoke::
-
- $ make check
-
-Python_ is required to run the tests.
-
Documentation
-------------
-Documentation is in the ``doc/`` subdirectory. It's written in
-reStructuredText_ with Sphinx_ annotations, so reading it in plain may
-be inconvenient. For this reason, prebuilt HTML documentation is
-available at http://www.digip.org/jansson/doc/.
+Prebuilt HTML documentation is available at
+http://www.digip.org/jansson/doc/.
-To generate HTML documentation yourself, invoke::
+The documentation source is in the ``doc/`` subdirectory. To generate
+HTML documentation, invoke::
- make html
+ $ make html
-and point your browser to ``doc/_build/html/index.html``. Sphinx_ is
-required to generate the documentation.
+Then, point your browser to ``doc/_build/html/index.html``. Sphinx_
+1.0 or newer is required to generate the documentation.
.. _Jansson: http://www.digip.org/jansson/
.. _`MIT license`: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
-.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
-.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/