[Lxml-checkins] r46171 - lxml/trunk

scoder at codespeak.net scoder at codespeak.net
Wed Aug 29 20:47:09 CEST 2007


Author: scoder
Date: Wed Aug 29 20:47:07 2007
New Revision: 46171

Modified:
   lxml/trunk/INSTALL.txt
Log:
doc updates

Modified: lxml/trunk/INSTALL.txt
==============================================================================
--- lxml/trunk/INSTALL.txt	(original)
+++ lxml/trunk/INSTALL.txt	Wed Aug 29 20:47:07 2007
@@ -42,9 +42,12 @@
 
 If you want to build lxml from SVN you should read `how to build lxml from
 source`_ (or the file ``build.txt`` in the ``doc`` directory of the source
-tree).  Both the subversion sources and the source distribution ship with an
-adapted version of Pyrex, so you do not need Pyrex installed.
+tree).  Building from Subversion sources or from modified distribution sources
+requires Cython_ to translate the lxml sources into C code.  The source
+distribution ships with pre-generated C source files, so you do not need
+Cython installed to build from release sources.
 
+.. _Cython: http://www.cython.org
 .. _`how to build lxml from source`: build.html
 
 If you have read these instructions and still cannot manage to install lxml,


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