Fossil SCM

Pull over the changes to the 'building and installing' wiki page from msw-docco. There's some more docco changes pending in that branch which should be pulled by sanctioned developers.

martin.weber 2012-02-10 23:04 trunk
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<title>Building and Installing Fossil</title>
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<h2>0.0 Using A Pre-compiled Binary</h2>
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-<p>You can skip all of the following by downloading
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-a <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">pre-compiled binary</a>
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-appropriate for your platform and putting that self-contained binary
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-someplace on your $PATH.
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+<p>Released versions of fossil come with
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+<a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">pre-compiled binaries and
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+a source archive</a> for that release. You can thus skip the following if you
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+want to run or build a release version of fossil. Just download
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+the appropriate package from the <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">downloads page</a>
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+and put it on your $PATH.
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To uninstall, simply delete the binary.
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To upgrade from an older release, just overwrite the older binary with
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the newer one.</p>
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<h2>0.1 Executive Summary</h2>
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<p><hr>
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<h2>1.0 Obtaining The Source Code</h2>
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<p>Fossil is self-hosting, so you can obtain a ZIP archive containing
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-a snapshot of the latest version directly from fossil's own fossil
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-repository. Follow these steps:</p>
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+a snapshot of the <em>latest</em> version directly from fossil's own fossil
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+repository. Additionally, source archives of <em>released</em> versions of
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+fossil are available from the <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">downloads page</a>.
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+To obtain a development version of fossil, follow these steps:</p>
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<ol>
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<li><p>Point your web browser at
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<a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/">
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http://www.fossil-scm.org/</a>. Click on the "Login" menu button.</p></li>
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1 <title>Building and Installing Fossil</title>
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3 <h2>0.0 Using A Pre-compiled Binary</h2>
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5 <p>You can skip all of the following by downloading
6 a <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">pre-compiled binary</a>
7 appropriate for your platform and putting that self-contained binary
8 someplace on your $PATH.
 
 
9 To uninstall, simply delete the binary.
10 To upgrade from an older release, just overwrite the older binary with
11 the newer one.</p>
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13 <h2>0.1 Executive Summary</h2>
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24 <p><hr>
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26 <h2>1.0 Obtaining The Source Code</h2>
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28 <p>Fossil is self-hosting, so you can obtain a ZIP archive containing
29 a snapshot of the latest version directly from fossil's own fossil
30 repository. Follow these steps:</p>
 
 
31
32 <ol>
33 <li><p>Point your web browser at
34 <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/">
35 http://www.fossil-scm.org/</a>. Click on the "Login" menu button.</p></li>
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--- www/build.wiki
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1 <title>Building and Installing Fossil</title>
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3 <h2>0.0 Using A Pre-compiled Binary</h2>
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5 <p>Released versions of fossil come with
6 <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">pre-compiled binaries and
7 a source archive</a> for that release. You can thus skip the following if you
8 want to run or build a release version of fossil. Just download
9 the appropriate package from the <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">downloads page</a>
10 and put it on your $PATH.
11 To uninstall, simply delete the binary.
12 To upgrade from an older release, just overwrite the older binary with
13 the newer one.</p>
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15 <h2>0.1 Executive Summary</h2>
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26 <p><hr>
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28 <h2>1.0 Obtaining The Source Code</h2>
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30 <p>Fossil is self-hosting, so you can obtain a ZIP archive containing
31 a snapshot of the <em>latest</em> version directly from fossil's own fossil
32 repository. Additionally, source archives of <em>released</em> versions of
33 fossil are available from the <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/download.html">downloads page</a>.
34 To obtain a development version of fossil, follow these steps:</p>
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36 <ol>
37 <li><p>Point your web browser at
38 <a href="http://www.fossil-scm.org/">
39 http://www.fossil-scm.org/</a>. Click on the "Login" menu button.</p></li>
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