From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>] RFA: Don't pass -glossary flag to texi2html
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:17:00 -0000
Message-id: <nphet5d83m.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
References: <npbsjedkou.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com> <3405-Fri12Oct2001001736+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3BC61DEC.1080902@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00156.html

Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> >> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
> >> Date: 11 Oct 2001 14:46:09 -0500
> >> 
> >> You have have missed it, but this is a patch to gdb/doc/Makefile.in.
> > 
> > 
> > I didn't miss it, it's just that I never use texi2html (and frankly
> > don't understand why won't we use "makeinfo --html"), and Andrew
> > already gave his blessing.
> 
>  From memory, at the time texi2html gave better output than `makeinfo 
> --html` (why it was better I don't remember).  It is probably getting 
> near high time to re-consider the decision.

>From gdb/doc/Makefile.in:

# Note that texinfo 4.0's makeinfo --html can only generate a
# single file, which would be too large, so continue to use
# texi2html. -sts 2000-03-28