X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/a4b4a614bea0d7b8e30702ad63b7cae3ef44524e..df9d39698f93d803acdf37d1c94f74f58719634e:/README diff --git a/README b/README index f5b128d8a..a4dc0d641 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,4 +2,22 @@ Use ./Makefile.PL to generate a Makefile, "make" will build the documentation wiki and a man page, and "make install" will install ikiwiki. All other documentation is in the ikiwiki documentation wiki, which is also -available online at +available online at + + +A few special variables you can set while using the Makefile: + + PROFILE=1 turns on profiling for the build of the doc wiki. + (Uses Devel::NYTProf) + + NOTAINT=0 turns on the taint flag in the ikiwiki program. (Not recommended + unless your perl is less buggy than mine -- see + http://bugs.debian.org/411786) + + There are also other variables supported by MakeMaker, including PREFIX, + INSTALL_BASE, and DESTDIR. See ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3). + + In particular, INSTALL_BASE is very useful if you want to install ikiwiki + to some other location, as it configures it to see the perl libraries + there. See `doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn` for an example of using this to + install ikiwiki and its dependencies in a home directory.