autoconf: Checks for some library functions.

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 433449fd8e1b6521a65084cadf3dc17ec8f0c45a..28245b3e680fe0c057b7dbafd04ad35f1e109c7c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ that uses $prefix, the built results have some paths encoded,
 which are derived from $prefix, so "make all; make prefix=/usr
 install" would not work.
 
+Alternatively you can use autoconf generated ./configure script to
+set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead
+
+       $ autoconf ;# as yourself if ./configure doesn't exist yet
+       $ ./configure --prefix=/usr ;# as yourself
+       $ make all doc ;# as yourself
+       # make install install-doc ;# as root
+
+
 Issues of note:
 
  - git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which
@@ -40,9 +49,7 @@ Issues of note:
 
          If you don't have openssl, you can use one of the SHA1 libraries
          that come with git (git includes the one from Mozilla, and has
-         its own PowerPC-optimized one too - see the Makefile), and you
-         can avoid the bignum support by excising git-rev-list support
-         for "--merge-order" (by hand).
+         its own PowerPC and ARM optimized ones too - see the Makefile).
 
        - "libcurl" and "curl" executable.  git-http-fetch and
          git-fetch use them.  If you do not use http
@@ -98,7 +105,7 @@ Issues of note:
 
        $ mkdir manual && cd manual
        $ git init-db
-       $ git clone-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
+       $ git fetch-pack git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git man html |
          while read a b
          do
            echo $a >.git/$b