added some extra info about the needed libs for compiling to docs.xml and added the...
authorNikolas Garofil <garo@dunaldi.garofil.be>
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:02:29 +0000 (15:02 +0200)
committerNikolas Garofil <garo@dunaldi.garofil.be>
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:02:29 +0000 (15:02 +0200)
doc/docs.xml

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                <title>Compiling</title>
                <para>
                        For users compiling from source on a binary distro, make sure you have the X development
-                       libraries installed.  This should be a package along the lines of "libx11-dev" or
-                       "xorg-x11-dev" for X11 libs, and similar "-dev" format for the other libs required (depending
-                       on your configure options).
+                       libraries installed (Unless you provide configure with "--disable-x11").  This should be a
+                       package along the lines of "libx11-dev" or "xorg-x11-dev" for X11 libs, and similar "-dev"
+                       format for the other libs required (depending on your configure options). You should be able
+                       to see which extra packages you need to install by reading errors that you get from
+                       './configure'.
                </para>
                <para>
                        Conky has (for some time) been available in the repositories of most popular distributions.
                                http://conky.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para>
                <para><ulink url="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky">
                                http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/conky</ulink></para>
+               <para><ulink url="http://wiki.conky.be">
+                               http://wiki.conky.be</ulink></para>
                <para>
                        #conky on irc.freenode.net
                </para>