From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19988 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2004 19:45:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19980 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 19:45:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 19:45:31 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539212B92; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:45:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <403A585A.4010205@gnu.org> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:45:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Berry Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: texinfo.tex? References: <200402192007.i1JK7g918411@f7.net> In-Reply-To: <200402192007.i1JK7g918411@f7.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00650.txt.bz2 > 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