X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=web%2Fmanual.m4;h=0a5f580a79d4fbe603aa87c90c959e90b4d089ce;hp=84cc79dcf2a76adddfd0c961235595380d2df822;hb=6f68e76a0cfe31757c4e7158ca30f4c85b8a8774;hpb=55aa934b633be4b5635ebf334a629ec299dd6bfc

diff --git a/web/manual.m4 b/web/manual.m4
index 84cc79dc..0a5f580a 100644
--- a/web/manual.m4
+++ b/web/manual.m4
@@ -298,35 +298,14 @@ Optional:
 
 Installation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+To build the sources from a tarball, execute
 
-First make sure all non-optional packages listed in the section on
-REFERENCE(Requirements, required software) are installed on your
-system.
+	./configure && make
 
-You don't need everything listed there. In particular, MP3, OGG/Vorbis,
-OGG/Speex and AAC support are all optional. The configure script will
-detect what is installed on your system and will only try to build
-those executables that can be built with your setup.
-
-Note that no special decoder library (not even the MP3 decoding library
-libmad) is needed for para_server if you only want to stream MP3 or WMA
-files. Also, it's fine to use para_server on a box without sound card.
-
-Next, install the paraslash package on all machines, you'd like this
-software to run on. If you compile from a released tarball, execute
-
-	(./configure && make) > /dev/null
-
-When compiling from git or from snapshots downloaded via gitweb,
-the above command will not work because the configure script is not
-included in the git repository. In this case the following command
-should be used instead:
+To build from git or a gitweb snapshot, run this command instead:
 
 	./autogen.sh
 
-This runs autoconf to generate the configure script, then runs it as
-above. Therefore you'll need autoconf for this to work.
-
 There should be no errors but probably some warnings about missing
 packages which usually implies that not all audio formats will be
 supported. If headers or libs are installed at unusual locations you