From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23822 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2011 14:38:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 23813 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Dec 2011 14:38:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:38:32 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pBKEcTBn001528 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:38:29 -0500 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id pBKEcT7u013374; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:38:29 -0500 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id pBKEcRPj032178; Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:38:28 -0500 From: Tom Tromey To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [patch] gdb_gcore man/help/install [+doc] #2 References: <20111206002555.GA12329@host2.jankratochvil.net> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:42:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20111206002555.GA12329@host2.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's message of "Tue, 6 Dec 2011 01:25:55 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00660.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil 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