Re: texinfo.tex?

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

>  Karl, would you suggest to import that version whenever GDB is about
>     to be released
> 
> Yes.

Done.  GDB's doco still appears to "work" :-)

>     > See @url{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/}.
> 
> ftp.gnu.org will no longer have texinfo.tex as a standalone file, since
> there's no practical way to update it there any more.  So if you need a
> short url, ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo.tex is the best there is.  A
> GNU-related url is:  
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/config/texinfo.tex?rev=HEAD
> But that's a lot more annoying to put in a manual.  

I think I'll change the url to http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/, and 
then people can find their way to tug from there :-)

> (Note: *texinfo* cvs on savannah does not have the latest version, long
> story, I can explain if need be.)
> 
>     > @item config.guess
>     > @itemx config.sub
> 
> Those particular files are in the savannah config project (and updated
> very frequently).

Yes, I've imported them.

> However, you may find it more convenient to use the savannah gnulib
> project, which has an up-to-date copy of config.{guess,sub}, but also
> many other files.  Paul Eggert, Bruno Haible, I, and others have made a
> little infrastructure (the gnulib/config/srclist* files in gnulib cvs)
> to pull common files in from config cvs, automake cvs, autoconf cvs,
> gettext cvs, www.gnu.org, etc.
> 
> (The primary purpose of gnulib is to have common code to be shared at
> the source level, in gnulib/lib et al., but that may or may not be
> helpful to gdb, since you do that through libiberty.)

Liberty doesn't include the config files :-/

>     > @c @itemx etc/maintain.texi
>     > Try @url{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/standards/} but that copy proved more
>     > out-of-date than what was in @file{etc/}.
> 
> maintain.texi and standards.texi are maintained in /gd/gnuorg on
> fencepost.  Regrettably, they are not currently available anywhere else
> to my knowledge, although I could easily put them into gnulib, if that
> would be helpful to you.

Ah, ok.  I can get it from there.  Bundling it with gnulib may make life 
easier though - a one stop shop.

thanks!
Andrew