X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Looking for man pages Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 10:59:36 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <014a01c7d8f7$8da263a0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> References: <014a01c7d8f7$8da263a0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> From: "Bob McConnell" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l77F0q0G003207 > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:34 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Looking for man pages > > On 07 August 2007 14:14, Bob McConnell wrote: > > > This is not exactly a cygwin question, but can anyone point me to a > > decent man page about writing Makefiles for GNU make 3.81? > > There's a free version of the o'Reilly book available: > > http://www.wanderinghorse.net/computing/make/ > > > > I tried to > > use info, but can't make heads nor tails of the navigation > methods for > > that atrocity. > > Use the cursor keys to scroll around the page. Press Enter > to follow a > link, 'l' to go back in the history, 'u' to go up a level in > the hierarchy. > > Try using these instructions to help you read "info info"! I tried "info make" and then '?'. The first nuisance was not being able to scroll a line at a time. Having the page jump up half a screen when I got to the bottom was jarring. But it was the 20 pages of emacs key maps that actually convinced me I was barking up the wrong tree. Life is too precious to waste like that. In my case I prefer to spend what little time I have left with my grandchildren. Thank you for that link. While it was difficult to figure out what version of Make it references (3.81 is buried in a comment at the very bottom of the change history), they did include a copy of the book in ISO 26300 (.odt) format. That will be very useful. Bob McConnell -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/