source: BOOK/final-system/common/texinfo.xml@ 6cd5eb9

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Last change on this file since 6cd5eb9 was 3b8a0e9, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 17 years ago

Texinfo patch only needs to be applied to temp-system.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-texinfo" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="texinfo.html"?>
10
11 <title>Texinfo-&texinfo-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo">
14 <primary sortas="a-Texinfo">Texinfo</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Texinfo package contains programs for reading, writing, and
21 converting info pages.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Texinfo</title>
27
28 <para os="a">Prepare Texinfo for compilation:</para>
29
30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
31
32 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
33
34<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
35
36 <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
37 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
38
39 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
40
41<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
42
43 <para os="h">The Info documentation system uses a plain text file to hold
44 its list of menu entries. The file is located at
45 <filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename>. Unfortunately, due to occasional
46 problems in the Makefiles of various packages, it can sometimes get out of
47 sync with the info pages installed on the system. If the
48 <filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename> file ever needs to be recreated,
49 the following optional commands will accomplish the task:</para>
50
51<screen os="i" role="nodump"><userinput>cd /usr/share/info
52rm dir
53for f in *
54do install-info $f dir 2&gt;/dev/null
55done</userinput></screen>
56
57 </sect2>
58
59 <sect2 id="contents-texinfo" role="content">
60 <title>Contents of Texinfo</title>
61
62 <segmentedlist>
63 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
64
65 <seglistitem>
66 <seg>info, infokey, install-info, makeinfo, texi2dvi, texi2pdf,
67 and texindex</seg>
68 </seglistitem>
69 </segmentedlist>
70
71 <variablelist>
72 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
73 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
74 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
75
76 <varlistentry id="info">
77 <term><command>info</command></term>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>Used to read info pages which are similar to man
80 pages, but often go much deeper than just explaining all the command
81 line options. For example, compare <command>man bison</command> and
82 <command>info bison</command>.</para>
83 <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo info">
84 <primary sortas="b-info">info</primary>
85 </indexterm>
86 </listitem>
87 </varlistentry>
88
89 <varlistentry id="infokey">
90 <term><command>infokey</command></term>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>Compiles a source file containing Info customizations into a
93 binary format</para>
94 <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo infokey">
95 <primary sortas="b-infokey">infokey</primary>
96 </indexterm>
97 </listitem>
98 </varlistentry>
99
100 <varlistentry id="install-info">
101 <term><command>install-info</command></term>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>Used to install info pages; it updates entries in the
104 <command>info</command> index file</para>
105 <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo install-info">
106 <primary sortas="b-install-info">install-info</primary>
107 </indexterm>
108 </listitem>
109 </varlistentry>
110
111 <varlistentry id="makeinfo">
112 <term><command>makeinfo</command></term>
113 <listitem>
114 <para>Translates the given Texinfo source documents into
115 info pages, plain text, or HTML</para>
116 <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo makeinfo">
117 <primary sortas="b-makeinfo">makeinfo</primary>
118 </indexterm>
119 </listitem>
120 </varlistentry>
121
122 <varlistentry id="texi2dvi">
123 <term><command>texi2dvi</command></term>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>Used to format the given Texinfo document into a
126 device-independent file that can be printed</para>
127 <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texi2dvi">
128 <primary sortas="b-texi2dvi">texi2dvi</primary>
129 </indexterm>
130 </listitem>
131 </varlistentry>
132
133 <varlistentry id="texi2pdf">
134 <term><command>texi2pdf</command></term>
135 <listitem>
136 <para>Used to format the given Texinfo document into a
137 Portable Document Format (PDF) file</para>
138 <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texi2pdf">
139 <primary sortas="b-texi2pdf">texi2pdf</primary>
140 </indexterm>
141 </listitem>
142 </varlistentry>
143
144 <varlistentry id="texindex">
145 <term><command>texindex</command></term>
146 <listitem>
147 <para>Used to sort Texinfo index files</para>
148 <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texindex">
149 <primary sortas="b-texindex">texindex</primary>
150 </indexterm>
151 </listitem>
152 </varlistentry>
153
154 </variablelist>
155
156 </sect2>
157
158</sect1>
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