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diff --git a/doc/install/cabal.mdwn b/doc/install/cabal.mdwn index 96e623d3b..39df35194 100644 --- a/doc/install/cabal.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/cabal.mdwn @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ and then: cabal update PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH - cabal install c2hs git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin + cabal install c2hs + cabal install git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin The above downloads the latest release and installs it into a ~/bin/ directory, which you can put in your PATH. @@ -20,3 +21,11 @@ you want, and use cabal as follows inside its source tree: cabal configure cabal build cabal install --bindir=$HOME/bin + +By default, cabal will try to build git-annex with the git-annex assistant +and webapp. This requires several C libraries and their headers be already +installed on your system, including libgnutls, libgsasl, libxml2, and zlib. +To build git-annex without the assistant and webapp, you can pass flags to +cabal install. For example: + + cabal install git-annex --flags="-assistant -WebApp" --bindir=$HOME/bin |