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Copyright © 2019-2023 Grégor Boirie.

This manual is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU General Public License.

User Guide

• 1. Overview
• 2. Prerequisites
• 3. Workflow
  • 3.1. Configure
  • 3.2. Build
  • 3.3. Install
  • 3.4. Staged install
  • 3.5. Cleanup
  • 3.6. Documentation
    • 3.6.1. Generation
    • 3.6.2. Installation
  • 3.7. Source tags
  • 3.8. Distribution
  • 3.9. Tools
• 4. Reference
  • 4.1. Targets
    • 4.1.1. build
    • 4.1.2. clean
    • 4.1.3. clean-doc
    • 4.1.4. clean-tags
    • 4.1.5. defconfig
    • 4.1.6. dist
    • 4.1.7. distclean
    • 4.1.8. doc
    • 4.1.9. gconfig
    • 4.1.10. help
    • 4.1.11. help-full
    • 4.1.12. install
    • 4.1.13. install-doc
    • 4.1.14. install-strip
    • 4.1.15. menuconfig
    • 4.1.16. saveconfig
    • 4.1.17. tags
    • 4.1.18. uninstall
    • 4.1.19. uninstall-doc
    • 4.1.20. xconfig
  • 4.2. Variables
    • 4.2.1. AR
    • 4.2.2. BINDIR
    • 4.2.3. BUILDDIR
    • 4.2.4. CC
    • 4.2.5. CROSS_COMPILE
    • 4.2.6. CSCOPE
    • 4.2.7. CTAGS
    • 4.2.8. DEFCONFIG
    • 4.2.9. DATADIR
    • 4.2.10. DESTDIR
    • 4.2.11. DOCDIR
    • 4.2.12. DOXY
    • 4.2.13. EBUILDDIR
    • 4.2.14. ECHOE
    • 4.2.15. GIT
    • 4.2.16. INFODIR
    • 4.2.17. INCLUDEDIR
    • 4.2.18. INSTALL
    • 4.2.19. INSTALL_INFO
    • 4.2.20. KCONF
    • 4.2.21. KGCONF
    • 4.2.22. KMCONF
    • 4.2.23. KXCONF
    • 4.2.24. LATEXMK
    • 4.2.25. LD
    • 4.2.26. LIBDIR
    • 4.2.27. LIBEXECDIR
    • 4.2.28. LN
    • 4.2.29. LOCALSTATEDIR
    • 4.2.30. MAKEINFO
    • 4.2.31. MANDB
    • 4.2.32. MANDIR
    • 4.2.33. PREFIX
    • 4.2.34. PKG_CONFIG
    • 4.2.35. PKGCONFIGDIR
    • 4.2.36. PYTHON
    • 4.2.37. RM
    • 4.2.38. RSYNC
    • 4.2.39. RUNSTATEDIR
    • 4.2.40. SBINDIR
    • 4.2.41. SPHINXBUILD
    • 4.2.42. STRIP
    • 4.2.43. SVN
    • 4.2.44. SYSCONFDIR
    • 4.2.45. TOPDIR
• 5. Troubleshooting

Appendix

• Licensing
  • GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
    • Preamble
    • TERMS AND CONDITIONS
      • Definitions
      • Source Code
      • Basic Permissions
      • Protecting Users’ Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law
      • Conveying Verbatim Copies
      • Conveying Modified Source Versions
      • Conveying Non-Source Forms
      • Additional Terms
      • Termination
      • Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies
      • Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients
      • Patents
      • No Surrender of Others’ Freedom
      • Use with the GNU Affero General Public License
      • Revised Versions of this License
      • Disclaimer of Warranty
      • Limitation of Liability
      • Interpretation of Sections 15 and 16
    • How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
• Todo
• Index