From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: GDB Discussion <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 5.1 README
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B5C8F95.9020900@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010723193604.20613K-100000@is>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
>
>> Several things I've noticed:
>>
>> o it recommends a separate build tree
>> yet gives the same build tree example
>> first
>
>
> IIRC, this was discussed in the past, and we decided to leave it as it is
> now. I don't see anything wrong with the current structure: after all,
> for a typical user, keeping the source directory pristine is not very
> important. Those who care will read the recommendation and act upon it.
Point taken, not something to debate this late in the game.
>> o it doesn't mention building PDF
>
>
> This can be easily added. Should I do that?
Yes please.
> P.S. Somebody should make sure the PDF version indeed can be built with
> the popular version(s) of PDFTeX, before we advertise that.
Oh, great :-) How many are there? Looks like all the machines I have
access to have teTeX (of one varity or another) installed. That
includes sources which is used for the nightly PDF snapshots.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-23 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-07 10:25 Andrew Cagney
2001-07-08 1:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-19 11:53 ` Andrew Cagney
2001-07-23 9:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-23 13:56 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2001-07-25 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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