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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 06:46:33 -0500
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 2.04 CVS Build plan
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, CBFalconer wrote:
> 
> > I have finally been able to get some sort of documentation by
> > extracting a section from a diff file for malloc.txh, stripping
> > the left columns, and passing the result through makeinfo --html
> > (with many errors reported, listed below as quote).
> >
> > > malloc.txh:465: Unknown command `portability'.
> > > ./malloc.txh:1: Next reference to nonexistent node `memory'.
> 
> You cannot run a sole .txh file through `makeinfo', it won't work.
> TRhese files are fragments of the manual, and only make sense to
> `makeinfo' when presented to it concatenated together (and with some
> preprocessing that takes care of the likes of @portability).  You
> must either read the Texinfo sources (the *.txh files themselves)--which
> is not too hard, since it's almost plain text--or download the whole CVS
> source tree and type "make" in its top-level src/ directory, which will
> generate a new libc.info file for you.

Well, actually I got a pretty readable extract with:

  makeinfo --html --force

from the .txh file.

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