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[platform/upstream/glib.git] / INSTALL.in

diff --git a/INSTALL.in b/INSTALL.in
index d8134ff..1edc7e9 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.in
+++ b/INSTALL.in
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Simple install procedure
 ========================
 
-  % gzip -cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION@.tar.gz | tar xvf -  # unpack the sources
-  % cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION@                           # change to the toplevel directory
+  % tar xf glib-@GLIB_VERSION@.tar.gz       # unpack the sources
+  % cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION@                  # change to the toplevel directory
   % ./configure                             # run the `configure' script
   % make                                    # build GLIB
 
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ Simple install procedure
 Requirements
 ============
 
+GLib requires a C90-compliant (but not necessarily C99-compliant) C
+compiler and libc. On UNIX-like systems, it also assumes compliance
+with at least the original 1990 version of POSIX.
+
 GLib-2.0 requires pkg-config, which is tool for tracking the
 compilation flags needed for libraries. (For each library, a small .pc
 text file is installed in a standard location that contains the
@@ -21,7 +25,7 @@ information.) Information about pkg-config can be found at:
 
   http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
 
-GNU make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make) is also recommended.
+GNU make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make) is also required.
 
 In order to implement conversions between character sets,
 GLib requires an implementation of the standard iconv() routine.
@@ -60,7 +64,6 @@ available from:
 
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
 
-
 Support for extended attributes and SELinux in GIO requires
 libattr and libselinux.
 
@@ -80,7 +83,7 @@ in the file:
 
 Or online at:
 
- http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-building.html
+ https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-building.html
 
 
 Installation directories
@@ -120,4 +123,4 @@ in the file:
 
 Or online at:
 
- http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-cross-compiling.html
+ https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-cross-compiling.html