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Re: Documentation in texinfo format.
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: John McCabe <john at assen dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:12:48 -0700
- Subject: Re: Documentation in texinfo format.
- References: <46CF50BC.4671.6A82D8@john.assen.demon.co.uk>
- Reply-to: gdb at sourceware dot org
John McCabe wrote:
> I have got the src module from cvs which seems to contain a lot of this
> stuff, but when I try to run texify gdb.texinfo it comes up with an error
> finding gdb-cfg.texi. I found a comment on usenet from Eli Z that you need
> to do a make info in order for that to be produced, but I have no Makefile
> and, with the software I have installed (things like MinGW, Msys etc) the
> configure script doesn't work either.
I know people have already suggested Cygwin, but I just want to point
out that the Makefile already takes care of all this automatically. If
you install Cygwin and its tetex packages, all you have to do is "make
pdf" from a configured build directory and you get a typeset PDF file.
Brian