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diff --git a/doc/source/buildsource.sgml b/doc/source/buildsource.sgml
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--- a/doc/source/buildsource.sgml
+++ b/doc/source/buildsource.sgml
@@ -22,56 +22,55 @@
To build Privoxy from source,
autoconf,
- GNU make
- (gmake), and, of course, a C compiler like gcc are required.
+ GNU make (gmake),
+ and, of course, a C compiler like
+ gcc are required.
When building from a source tarball,
- first unpack the source:
+
+ first unpack the source:
-
+
tar xzvf privoxy-&p-version;-src.tar.gz
cd privoxy-&p-version;
- For retrieving the current CVS sources, you'll need a CVS client installed.
- Note that sources from CVS are typically development quality, and may not be
- stable, or well tested. To download CVS source, check the Sourceforge
- documentation, which might give commands like:
+ To build the development version, you can get the source code by doing:
-
- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co current
- cd current
+
+ cd <root-dir>
+ git clone https://www.privoxy.org/git/privoxy.git
- This will create a directory named current/, which will
- contain the source tree.
+ This will create a directory named <root-dir>/privoxy/,
+ which will contain the source tree.
+ Note that source code in GIT is development quality, and may not be
+ stable or well tested.
+
+
+
- It is also strongly recommended to not run Privoxy
+ It is strongly recommended to not run Privoxy
as root. You should configure/install/run Privoxy as
- an unprivileged user, preferably by creating a privoxy
user
+ an unprivileged user, preferably by creating a privoxy
user
and group just for this purpose. See your local documentation for the correct
command line to do add new users and groups (something like
adduser, but the command syntax may vary from platform