| 1 | $Id: README.dev,v 1.7 2003/11/24 15:11:06 karl Exp $
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| 2 | README.dev - Texinfo developer information.
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| 3 |
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| 4 | Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| 6 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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| 7 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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| 8 | notice and this notice are preserved.
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| 9 |
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| 10 | The development sources for Texinfo is available through anonymous cvs
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| 11 | at Savannah, see
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| 12 | http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=texinfo
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| 13 |
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| 14 | This distribution uses whatever versions of automake, autoconf, and
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| 15 | gettext are listed in NEWS; usually the latest ones released. If you
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| 16 | are getting the Texinfo sources from cvs, or change the Texinfo
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| 17 | configure.ac, you'll need to have these tools installed to (re)build.
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| 18 | You'll also need help2man. (All of these are available from
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| 19 | ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu.)
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| 20 |
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| 21 | Here's the order in which to run the tools for a fresh build:
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| 22 |
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| 23 | autoheader # creates config.in, not necessarily needed every time
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| 24 | aclocal -I m4 # for a new version of automake
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| 25 | automake
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| 26 | autoconf
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| 27 | configure CFLAGS=-g --enable-maintainer-mode
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| 28 | make
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| 29 |
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| 30 | (with arguments to taste, of course.) Or you can run
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| 31 |
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| 32 | ./bootstrap
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| 33 |
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| 34 | instead of the various auto* tools.
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| 35 |
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| 36 |
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| 37 | One final note: If you would like to contribute to the GNU project by
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| 38 | implementing additional documentation output formats for Texinfo, that
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| 39 | would be great. But please do not write a separate translator texi2foo
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| 40 | for your favorite format foo! That is the hard way to do the job, and
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| 41 | makes extra work in subsequent maintenance, since the Texinfo language
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| 42 | is continually being enhanced and updated. Instead, the best approach
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| 43 | is modify Makeinfo to generate the new format, as it does now for Info,
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| 44 | HTML, XML, and DocBook.
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