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diff --git a/doc/ledger3.texi b/doc/ledger3.texi index 5306d1f4..9157df99 100644 --- a/doc/ledger3.texi +++ b/doc/ledger3.texi @@ -367,18 +367,25 @@ data, not for altering it. @node Building the program, Getting help, Fat-free Accounting, Introduction to Ledger @section Building the program -Ledger is written in ANSI C++, and should compile on any platform. It -depends on the GNU multiple precision arithmetic library (libgmp), and -the Perl regular expression library (libpcre). It was developed using -GNU make and gcc 3.3, on a PowerBook running OS/X. - -To build and install once you have these libraries on your system, -enter these commands: +Ledger is written in ANSI C++, and should compile on any unix platform. +The easiest way to build and install ledger is to use the prepared +acprep script, that does a lot of the footwork: @smallexample -$ ./configure && make install + # to install missing dependencies + ./acprep dependencies + # building ledger + ./acprep update + # to run the actual installation + make install @end smallexample +Please read the contents of `config.log` if the configure step fails. +Also, see the `help` subcommand to `acprep`, which explains some of its +many options. It's pretty much the only command I run for configuring, +building and testing Ledger. You can run `make check` to confirm the +result, and `make install` to install. + @node Getting help, , Building the program, Introduction to Ledger @section Getting help @findex help |