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From:	"Juan Manuel Guerrero" <st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de>
Organization:	Darmstadt University of Technology
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:38:51 +0200
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port (release 2) of GNU Texinfo 4.7
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 This is a port of GNU Texinfo 4.7 to MSDOS/DJGPP (release 2).


  This is a djgpp specific bug fix release of the previous release
  of txi47[bds].zip, so it is seriously suggested to update.
  Due to a bug in the popen() and pclose() functions of beta djdev204, the
  info binary is not able to process compressed info files.
  This bug in popen() and pclose() has been fixed, so the sources can be
  compiled now with beta djdev204, available at ftp.delorie.com, to get
  working WinXP binaries.


  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

  - djdev203 specific:
    No changes since the last release.
    Please note that the distributed binaries have been build with djdev203.

  - djdev204 specific:
    The source package contains a copy of the new popen.c file from the cvs
    source tree of djdev204 (2004-12-08). A special configure batch file has
    been added that will automatically compile this file and replace the
    brocken popen.o and pclose.o implementations from djdev204. This applies
    only if the sources are configured for djdev204 instead of djdev203.
    Binaries compiled with djdev203 do not need this change because their
    popen()/pclose() implementation is not brocken.
    

  Compiling the sources.
  ======================

  - If you compile the sources with djdev203, you must proceed as usual running
    the following commands from the top srcdir, this is texinfo4.7:
      make
      make check
      make install

    No test of the testsuite shall fail.

  - If you compile the sources with djdev204 it will be essential to reconfigure
    sources because the distributed one have been configured for djdev203. For
    this purpose you **must** delete the cache file djgpp/config.cache or you
    will get a broken binary.
    Due to the actually broken popen() from beta djdev204 the configuration batch
    file (xp-config.bat) will modify the /lib/Makefile in such a way that the
    distributed popen.c file is compiled into the libtxi.a and linked instead of
    the broken implementations of the beta djdev204 libc. 

    In conclusion, to rebuild the sed binary with djdev204 to get a binary
    usefull for WinXP run the following commands from the top srcdir (texinfo4.7):
      rm djgpp/config.cache
      djgpp\xp-config.bat
      make
      make check
      make install

    Please note that the removing of the cache file is essential. It should
    also be noticed that xp-config.bat shall be used to configure the sources
    or the /lib/Makefile will not be modified in the correct way producing a
    broken binary.
    No test of the testsuite shall fail.
    Please do **not** report anything to <bug-texinfo AT gnu DOT org>, if there are
    problems with this port there are probably djdev204 originated and must be
    discussed and solved here.


    As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, readme files, etc.)
    are located in the /djgpp subdir.



  The port consists of the usual three packages that can be downloaded from
  ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2004-12-09):

    Texinfo 4.7 binary, info and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/txi47b.zip

    Texinfo 4.7 dvi, html and ps format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/txi47d.zip

    Texinfo 4.7 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/txi47s.zip

  Texinfo is a package for writing documentation, with tools to produce the
  on-line and printed docs in several formats.  Most GNU packages come with
  their docs written and produced by Texinfo programs.  The docs written as
  part of the DJGPP project also use Texinfo.

  See the file NEWS for a list of major changes in the current release.



  Send texinfo specific bug reports to <bug-texinfo AT gnu DOT org>
  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to
  comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.

Enjoy.

    Guerrero, Juan Manuel <st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de>

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