From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
To: John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Documentation in texinfo format.
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CF7400.C4346FEC@dessent.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46CF50BC.4671.6A82D8@john.assen.demon.co.uk>
John McCabe wrote:
> 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.
I know people have already suggested Cygwin, but I just want to point
out that the Makefile already takes care of all this automatically. If
you install Cygwin and its tetex packages, all you have to do is "make
pdf" from a configured build directory and you get a typeset PDF file.
Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-25 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-24 20:42 John McCabe
2007-08-24 20:46 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-08-24 21:49 ` John McCabe
2007-08-24 21:54 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-08-25 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-25 0:12 ` Brian Dessent [this message]
2007-08-25 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-25 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-08-25 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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