Remove advanced building options from README

This removes the section about advanced build options and build
dependencies and points to the docs page instead.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Schwiderski <lucas@lschwiderski.de>

docs/01-readme.md

@@ -6,21 +6,21 @@ Awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
 
 ## Building and installation
 
-After extracting the dist tarball, run:
+After extracting the dist tarball or cloning the repository, run:
 
 ```sh
 make
+sudo make install
 ```
 
-This will create a build directory, run `cmake` in it and build Awesome.
+This will
 
-After building is finished, you can either install via `make install`:
+1. create a build directory at `./build`,
+2. run `cmake`,
+3. build Awesome and
+4. install it to the default prefix path `/usr/local`.
 
-```sh
+Alternatively to the above, you can generate a `.deb` or `.rpm` package, for easy installation management:
-make install  # you might need root permissions
-```
-
-or by auto-generating a .deb or .rpm package, for easy removal later on:
 
 ```sh
 make package
@@ -30,14 +30,9 @@ sudo dpkg -i awesome-x.y.z.deb
 sudo rpm -Uvh awesome-x.y.z.rpm
 ```
 
-NOTE: Awesome uses [`cmake`](https://cmake.org) to build. In case you want to
+### Advanced options and testing
-pass arguments to `cmake`, please use the `CMAKE_ARGS` environment variable. For
-instance:
-
-```sh
-CMAKE_ARGS="-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/awesome" make
-```
 
+A full list of dependencies, more advanced build options, as well as instructions on how to use the test suite can be found [here](https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/10-building-and-testing.md.html).
 
 ### Installing current git master as a package receipts
 
@@ -60,64 +55,6 @@ make package
 sudo apt install *.deb
 ```
 
-
-### Build dependencies
-
-Awesome has the following dependencies (besides a more-or-less standard POSIX
-environment):
-
-- [CMake >= 3.0.0](https://cmake.org)
-- [Lua >= 5.1.0](https://www.lua.org) or [LuaJIT](http://luajit.org)
-- [LGI >= 0.8.0](https://github.com/pavouk/lgi)
-- [xproto >= 7.0.15](https://www.x.org/archive//individual/proto/)
-- [libxcb >= 1.6](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/) with support for the RandR, XTest, Xinerama, SHAPE and
-  XKB extensions
-- [libxcb-cursor](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/)
-- [libxcb-util >= 0.3.8](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/)
-- [libxcb-keysyms >= 0.3.4](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/)
-- [libxcb-icccm >= 0.3.8](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/)
-- [libxcb-xfixes](https://xcb.freedesktop.org/)
-- [xcb-util-xrm >= 1.0](https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm)
-- [libxkbcommon](http://xkbcommon.org/) with X11 support enabled
-- [libstartup-notification >=
-  0.10](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/startup-notification/)
-- [cairo](https://www.cairographics.org/) with support for XCB and GObject
-  introspection
-- [Pango](http://www.pango.org/) with support for Cairo and GObject
-  introspection
-- [GLib >= 2.40](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib) with support for GObject
-  introspection
-- [GIO](https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/) with support for GObject
-  introspection
-- [GdkPixbuf](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GdkPixbuf)
-- libX11 with xcb support
-- [Imagemagick's convert utility](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php)
-- [libxdg-basedir >= 1.0.0](https://github.com/devnev/libxdg-basedir)
-
-Additionally, the following optional dependencies exist:
-
-- [DBus](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/) for DBus integration
-  and the `awesome-client` utility
-- [asciidoctor](https://asciidoctor.org/) for generating man pages
-- [gzip](http://www.gzip.org/) for compressing man pages
-- [ldoc >= 1.4.5](https://stevedonovan.github.io/ldoc/) for generating the
-  documentation
-- [busted](https://olivinelabs.com/busted/) for running unit tests
-- [luacheck](https://github.com/mpeterv/luacheck) for static code analysis
-- [LuaCov](https://keplerproject.github.io/luacov/) for collecting code coverage
-  information
-- libexecinfo on systems where libc does not provide `backtrace_symbols()` to
-  generate slightly better backtraces on crashes
-- `Xephyr` or `Xvfb` for running integration tests
-- [GTK+ >= 3.10](https://www.gtk.org/) for `./themes/gtk/`
-- [xcb-errors](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcb-errors) for
-  pretty-printing of X11 errors
-- [libRSVG](https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/LibRsvg) for displaying
-  SVG files without scaling artifacts
-- [wmctrl](http://tripie.sweb.cz/utils/wmctrl) for testing WM interactions
-  with external actions
-- [xterm](https://invisible-island.net/xterm/) for various test cases
-
 ## Running Awesome
 
 You can directly select Awesome from your display manager. If not, you can

docs/10-building-and-testing.md

@@ -138,5 +138,5 @@ Individual test categories can be run as well:
 * `make check-qa`: Run `luacheck` against the Lua library
 * `make check-unit`: Run unit tests with `busted` against the Lua library. You can also run `busted <options> ./spec` if you want to specify options for `busted`.
 * `make check-requires`: Check for invalid `require()` calls.
-* `make check-examples`: Run integration tests within the examples in `./tests/examples'.
+* `make check-examples`: Run integration tests within the examples in `./tests/examples`.
 * `make check-themes`: Test themes.