From: Heng Li Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:35:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: update INSTALL X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=14ef69cb3a76515204e81ef7f276312c1b6c7a07;p=samtools.git update INSTALL --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index f202463..71a91bc 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,19 +1,25 @@ System Requirements =================== -Most of SAMtools functionality only depends on zlib which is included in -this source code package. Compiling the alignment viewer further -requires the GNU ncurses library , -which comes with Mac OS X and most of the modern Linux/Unix -distributions. If you do not have this library installed, you can still -compile the rest of SAMtools by manually modifying two lines in Makefile -as is described in the Makefile. +SAMtools depends on the zlib library . The latest +version 1.2.3 is preferred and with the latest version you can compile +razip and use it to compress a FASTA file. SAMtools' faidx is able to +index a razip-compressed FASTA file to save diskspace. Older zlib also +works with SAMtools, but razip cannot be compiled. + +The text-based viewer (tview) requires the GNU ncurses library +, which comes with Mac OS X and +most of the modern Linux/Unix distributions. If you do not have this +library installed, you can still compile the rest of SAMtools by +manually modifying two lines in Makefile as is described in the +Makefile. Compilation =========== -Type `make' to compile samtools. +Type `make' to compile samtools. If you have zlib >= 1.2.2.1, you can +compile razip with `make razip'. Installation