From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7904 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2007 21:49:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 7508 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Aug 2007 21:49:07 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (HELO anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net) (194.217.242.88) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:48:55 +0000 Received: from assen.demon.co.uk ([80.176.146.77] helo=[192.168.1.2]) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1IOh1R-000FYk-0Z for gdb@sourceware.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:48:53 +0000 From: "John McCabe" To: gdb@sourceware.org Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:49:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Documentation in texinfo format. Message-ID: <46CF604C.7671.A74BB2@john.assen.demon.co.uk> In-reply-to: <20070824205043.GI6056@adacore.com> References: <46CF50BC.4671.6A82D8@john.assen.demon.co.uk>, <20070824205043.GI6056@adacore.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00206.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. Thanks for that suggestion. At the end of the day if that's what I need to do then I may do it, but this is mainly so that I can reduce the size of document I need to print out so if I can find a way to avoid installing cygwin just so that I can do this that would be my preferred option. Best Regards John McCabe