X-Git-Url: http://wien.tomnetworks.com/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fgacutil.1;h=d773851df4520e14cf02764ad48f92b6cf65fb3e;hb=20c72671c19e43952c3713660f350642e1f392d1;hp=05d9ff2b1e2ca9c771a7731f4167ff4c077b2594;hpb=234225d112c4b018b8d1796f4c06a15812137500;p=mono.git diff --git a/man/gacutil.1 b/man/gacutil.1 index 05d9ff2b1e2..d773851df45 100644 --- a/man/gacutil.1 +++ b/man/gacutil.1 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ .. .TH gacutil "Mono 1.0" .SH NAME -gacutil \- Global Asssembly Cache management utility. +gacutil \- Global Assembly Cache management utility. .SH SYNOPSIS .PP .B gacutil [-user] [command] [options] @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ gacutil \- Global Asssembly Cache management utility. assemblies into the system Global Assembly Cache (GAC) to become part of the assemblies that are available for all applications at runtime. .PP -Notice that they are not directly available to the compiler, the +Notice that they are not directly available to the compiler. The convention is that assemblies must also be placed in a separate -directory for being accessed to the compiler. This is done with the +directory to be accessed by the compiler. This is done with the -package directive to gacutil. .PP The tool allows for installation, removal, and listing of the @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ developers can reference a set of libraries at once. .Sp The -root option is used to specify the "libdir" value of an installation prefix which differs from the prefix of the system GAC. -Typical automake usage is "-root $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)". +Typical automake usage is "-root $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/lib". To access assemblies installed to a prefix other than the mono prefix, it is necessary to set the MONO_GAC_PREFIX environment variable. .Sp @@ -74,15 +74,15 @@ this takes as an argument the assembly name, which looks like this: MyLibrary.Something, version=1.0.0.0, publicKeyToken=xxxx,culture=neutral .fi .Sp -Notice that you can have spaces in the command line, there is no need +Notice that you can have spaces in the command line. There is no need to quote them. .Sp -The removal performs a greedy removal, if you only specifiy one +Performs a greedy removal. If you only specify one component like, "MyLibrary.Something", it will remove all versions of the library. .Sp .I "-us" [-package NAME] [-root ROOTDIR] [-gacdir GACDIR] -Uninstalls an assembly using the specifed assemblies full name. +Uninstalls an assembly using the specified assembly's full name. is the path to an assembly. The full assembly name is retrieved from the specified assembly if there is an assembly in the GAC with a matching name, it is removed. Unlike the -u option this