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