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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4b3b45b9..21a16e1d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-08-24 Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu>
+
+ * INSTALL: Tidy.
+
2007-08-23 Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu>
* configure.ac.pamphlet: Set release info to 1.1.0 (experimental).
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index d5ea8dd8..f75864f4 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Please, notice that GCL and noweb are needed only to *build*
OpenAxiom. If you plan to build OpenAxiom often, then it probably is
a good idea to separately build and install those tools once for all.
+
If you already have GCL and noweb installed, please go to step 2.
1.a. Download the dependency tarball open-axiom-1.0.x-dep.tar.bz2
@@ -64,9 +65,14 @@ or have separately installed them before proceeding.
2.b. Configure OpenAxiom
- cd open-axiom-1.0.0
- ./configure
+It is highly recommended that you build OpenAxiom in a directory
+different from the one that contains the sources. For example, you
+may create a directory sibling to open-axiom-1.0.0 and build the
+system from there:
+ mkdir build-oa
+ cd build-oa
+ ../open-axiom-1.0.0/configure
It is possible to tell configure where to put the final OpenAxiom
executables. By default, when you just type in configure like above,
@@ -74,7 +80,7 @@ it will configure the system with prefix /usr/local. You can instead
say where you want it to be installed, let's say /banana/space. You
would then have typed
- ./configure --prefix=/banana/space
+ ../open-axiom-1.0.0/configure --prefix=/banana/space
2.c. Make the system
@@ -115,9 +121,18 @@ make sure that you've gained the adequate privileges. Then, type:
make install
3.c. The system is ready for use
+
+After step 3.b., your should have a script called `axiom', in
+/usr/local/bin or /banana/space/bin or /whichever/prefix/you/used/bin,
+ready for your. Just type in
+
+ axiom
+
+in the shell.
-4. Enjoy.
+4. Enjoy
+ -----
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