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author | Evan Martin <martine@danga.com> | 2011-12-06 17:32:08 (GMT) |
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committer | Evan Martin <martine@danga.com> | 2011-12-06 17:33:55 (GMT) |
commit | 51cab0b9dbbee5dc6a656a8f4ce15330f36a7a2c (patch) | |
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@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@ -Ninja is a small build system closest in spirit to Make. +Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed. +http://martine.github.com/ninja/ See the manual -- http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html or -manual.asciidoc included in the distribution -- for more background, -including motivation and build instructions. +doc/manual.asciidoc included in the distribution -- for background +and more details. -Though the code is copyright Google, don't take that as an -endorsement; I wrote this in my spare time for fun. +To build, run ./bootstrap.sh. It first blindly compiles all non-test +source files together, then re-builds Ninja using itself. You should +end up with a 'ninja' binary in the source root. Run './ninja -h' for +help. + +There is no installation step. The only file of interest to a user +is the resulting ninja binary. -Discussions about Ninja should take place on the mailing list: -http://groups.google.com/group/ninja-build diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 2ad5918..43b8fa1 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -136,23 +136,7 @@ Getting started Start by downloading the code from https://github.com/martine/ninja[the github repo]. - -The included `bootstrap.sh` should hopefully produce a working `ninja` -binary, by first blindly compiling all non-test files together then -re-building Ninja using itself. - -Usage is currently just - ----------------- -ninja target ----------------- - -where `target` is a known output described by `build.ninja` in the -current directory. - -There is no installation step; the only files of interest to a user -are the resulting binary and this manual. - +The included `README` describes the build and install process. Writing .ninja files -------------------- |