Re: [patch] gdb_gcore man/help/install [+doc] #2

Tom Tromey
2011-12-20T14:38:45Z

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Jan> From the practical point of view with the goal to generate only the
Jan> nroff .1 format I think the choice is clear from nroff, pod and
Jan> texinfo. The most simple format for maintenance is pod. Therefore
Jan> I did not use texi2pod at all.

Thanks. I think it seems fine.

We still need an info node for invoking gcore.

Jan> Another approach would be some reorganization of gdb.texinfo to
Jan> generate also some huge man page from it but I do not plan to do so
Jan> myself.

I looked a little at using texi2pod but it seemed a bit daunting, as the
organization is pretty different. (The man page wouldn't have to be
enormous, but it does require extra markup and I think the ordering
might have to change.)

Tom