From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2766 invoked by alias); 25 Aug 2007 00:12:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 2744 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Aug 2007 00:12:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dessent.net (HELO dessent.net) (69.60.119.225) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:12:52 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IOjGk-0002x1-Jd; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:12:50 +0000 Message-ID: <46CF7400.C4346FEC@dessent.net> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:12:00 -0000 From: Brian Dessent Reply-To: gdb@sourceware.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John McCabe CC: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Documentation in texinfo format. References: <46CF50BC.4671.6A82D8@john.assen.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00209.txt.bz2 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