Update INSTALL file to be less redundant and contain a bit of information about compilers

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Known issues Known issues
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Older versions of Doxygen has bugs in the man-page generation which Fish currently requires a semi-modern GCC version to
cause the builtin help to render incorrectly. Version 1.2.14 is known compile. Specifically, GCC 2.95.* won't compile fish. Fish has not
to have this problem. been coded with an C99- or GNU-specific features in mind, so it is
hoped that it should be possible to make fish work with other
compilers. Patches are welcome.
In version 1.9.2, the installation prefix for fish rpms and debs has Older versions of Doxygen has bugs in the man-page generation which
changed from /usr/local to /usr. The package should automatically cause the builtin help to render incorrectly. Doxygen 1.2.14 is known
change any instances of /usr/local/bin/fish in /etc/passwd to to have this problem.
/usr/bin/fish, but some programs, like screen, may need to be
restarted to notice the changes. You may also run into problems when
switching between using a package and personal builds.
Prerequisites Prerequisites
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- Curses or Ncurses - Curses or Ncurses
fish also relies on standard unix tools such as cat, cut, grep, sed, fish also relies on standard unix tools such as cat, cut, grep, sed,
whoami and echo. Fish does not support cross-compilation, separate whoami, bc and echo. Fish does not support cross-compilation, separate
build directories or any other fancy configure options. Use a recent build directories or any other fancy configure options.
version of Doxygen, since older versions have bugs that make the
builtin help pages render incorrectly. Version 1.2.14 is known to be
broken.
Simple install procedure Simple install procedure
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If you have downloaded the darcs repository of fish, you need to run If you have downloaded the darcs repository of fish, you need to run
autoconf. the autoconf command first. Then use the following commands to compile
fish:
% ./configure % ./configure
% make # Compile fish % make # Compile fish