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Date:	Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:05:11 -0500
From:	CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: GDB 5.3 build query/problem & solution
References:	<200212291526 DOT gBTFQJU25879 AT delorie DOT com> <004c01c2b452$54044880$0100a8c0 AT acp42g> <3791-Sun05Jan2003063253+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
... snip ...
> 
> Probably because whoever prepared the source distribution ran makeinfo
> with the --no-split option.  Make only looks at the existance of the
> *.info files, it doesn't care about *.info-NN files.  The original
> GNU source distribution of GDB does have the 16 files you produced,
> not the single gdb.info, though.
> 
> Note that having *.info-NN files is bad for the 8+3 filesystems, you
> need *.iNN files instead.

Point of order - why don't the documentation zips contain the
original info source so that the user can create the format(s) of
interest?  AFAICT the only way to get this is to download the
massive complete source.  To me the formats of interest are the
info files and the one piece html, which is easily printed if
desired.

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