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authorKristian Evers <kristianevers@gmail.com>2021-08-12 09:41:44 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-08-12 09:41:44 +0200
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Merge pull request #2798 from OSGeo/backport-2797-to-8.1
[Backport 8.1] Docs: Improve order of instructions for installing from source.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/source/install.rst b/docs/source/install.rst
index 21487e7a..325e47b1 100644
--- a/docs/source/install.rst
+++ b/docs/source/install.rst
@@ -155,6 +155,12 @@ FSF's configuration procedure is used to ease installation of the PROJ system.
Follow the CMake installation guide if you are not using a UNIX-like
operating system.
+If you are building from the git repository you have to first run::
+
+ ./autogen.sh
+
+which will generate a ``configure`` script that can be used in the next step.
+
The default destination path prefix for installed files is ``/usr/local``.
Results from the installation script will be placed into subdirectories ``bin``,
``include``, ``lib``, and ``man/man1``. If this default path prefix
@@ -169,12 +175,6 @@ If another path prefix is required, then execute::
In either case, the directory of the prefix path must exist and be writable by
the installer.
-If you are building from the git repository you have to first run::
-
- ./autogen.sh
-
-which will generate a configure script that can be used as described above.
-
With the data files in place we can now build and install PROJ::
make