Update compilation instructions throughout our docs

related to https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/4086
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Michael Stapelberg 2020-11-15 16:11:15 +01:00 committed by Michael Stapelberg
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@ -21,12 +21,14 @@ i3-sensible-terminal is used in the default configuration.
If your distribution has a mechanism to get the preferred terminal, such as the
x-terminal-emulator symlink in Debian, please use it in i3-sensible-terminal.
On debian, compilation and installing the manpages looks like this:
You can build i3 like you build any other software package which uses
https://mesonbuild.com/; see
https://mesonbuild.com/Quick-guide.html#compiling-a-meson-project
In case youre unfamiliar:
autoreconf -fi
mkdir -p build && cd build
../configure
make -j8 install
$ mkdir -p build && cd build
$ meson ..
$ ninja
Please make sure that i3-migrate-config-to-v4 and i3-config-wizard are
installed with i3. The Perl script is necessary to (automatically) convert v3
@ -35,10 +37,8 @@ config with the users preferred modifier and should be started on the first
start of i3 (it will automatically exit if it finds a config file).
If you have any questions, ideas, hints, problems or whatever, please do not
hesitate to contact me. I will help you out. Just drop me an E-Mail (find the
address at https://michael.stapelberg.de/Impressum/, scroll down to bottom),
contact me using the same address in jabber or ask on our IRC channel:
(#i3 on irc.freenode.net).
hesitate to contact me. I will help you out. Please see
https://i3wm.org/contact/
Thanks again for your efforts,
Michael

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@ -23,8 +23,10 @@ outdated information.
== Building i3
You can build i3 like you build any other software package which uses meson.
Heres a memory refresher:
You can build i3 like you build any other software package which uses
https://mesonbuild.com/[The Meson Build system]; see
https://mesonbuild.com/Quick-guide.html#compiling-a-meson-project[Quickstart
Guide → Compiling a Meson project]. In case youre unfamiliar:
$ mkdir -p build && cd build
$ meson ..

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@ -120,13 +120,11 @@ tests are run under Xvfb.
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$ cd ~/i3
$ autoreconf -fi
$ mkdir -p build && cd build
$ ../configure
$ meson ..
$ make -j8
$ ninja
# output omitted because it is very long
$ cd testcases
@ -183,13 +181,11 @@ You can still use ./testcases/complete-run.pl to get the interactive progress ou
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$ cd ~/i3
$ autoreconf -fi
$ mkdir -p build && cd build
$ ../configure
$ meson ..
$ make -j8
$ ninja
# output omitted because it is very long
$ make check