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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2021-10-07 09:30:47 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2021-10-07 09:30:47 +0200
commit17ca8c504f73c339d6df1c2c04cf2057f7e9d4fd (patch)
treefe9331589c67346a2fa437c9a60060bd73f0440f
parent433b15cddc4ba78cd7d847ae07c5e15a9aa773ea (diff)
Tweak install testing instructions in README.md
-rw-r--r--README.md9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c2dd3ea..03e9d19 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,14 +22,15 @@ To generate the documentation in the `.ps` and `.pdf` formats, `html2ps` and
`ps2pdf14` programs are required (the latter is from `ghostscript`). A warning
is issued in the development mode if these programs are not available.
-Note that the development build cannot be installed (due to the bootstrap
-process; see `cli/build/root.build` for details). To test installation, a
-seperate, non-development build can be created:
+To test installation of the CLI compiler, create a separate target
+configuration (we must use a non-development build due to the bootstrap
+process):
```
-bdep config create @install ../cli-install --type host cc config.cxx=g++ \
+bdep config create @install ../cli-install --type target cc config.cxx=g++ \
config.install.root=/tmp/install
bdep init @install -d cli config.cli.develop=false
+
b install: ../cli-install/cli/
```