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Re: [Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>] RFA: Don't pass -glossary flag to texi2html
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>] RFA: Don't pass -glossary flag to texi2html
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb at zwingli dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: 11 Oct 2001 19:18:05 -0500
- Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>,gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <npbsjedkou.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com><3405-Fri12Oct2001001736+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il><3BC61DEC.1080902@cygnus.com>
Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> >> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
> >> Date: 11 Oct 2001 14:46:09 -0500
> >>
> >> You have have missed it, but this is a patch to gdb/doc/Makefile.in.
> >
> >
> > I didn't miss it, it's just that I never use texi2html (and frankly
> > don't understand why won't we use "makeinfo --html"), and Andrew
> > already gave his blessing.
>
> From memory, at the time texi2html gave better output than `makeinfo
> --html` (why it was better I don't remember). It is probably getting
> near high time to re-consider the decision.
>From gdb/doc/Makefile.in:
# Note that texinfo 4.0's makeinfo --html can only generate a
# single file, which would be too large, so continue to use
# texi2html. -sts 2000-03-28