From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15141 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2007 20:46:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 15109 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Aug 2007 20:46:43 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:46:36 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135D92AB027; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:46:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id jKZtlZNre292; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:46:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED992AACA0; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:46:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 52110E7B58; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:50:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:46:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: John McCabe Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Documentation in texinfo format. Message-ID: <20070824205043.GI6056@adacore.com> References: <46CF50BC.4671.6A82D8@john.assen.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46CF50BC.4671.6A82D8@john.assen.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00205.txt.bz2 > I have got the src module from cvs which seems to contain a lot of this > stuff, but when I try to run texify gdb.texinfo it comes up with an error > finding gdb-cfg.texi. I found a comment on usenet from Eli Z that you need > to do a make info in order for that to be produced, but I have no Makefile > and, with the software I have installed (things like MinGW, Msys etc) the > configure script doesn't work either. > > Any advice you can give me will be gratefully appreciated. If you are working on a windows machine, I greatly encourage you to install cygwin (www.cygwin.com). Then you can run configure and build GDB for migw, and follow this build with a documentation build. -- Joel