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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:52:36
To: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>
From: Ralph Proctor <ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net>
Subject: Re: Building Calc (was Re: "makeinfo --force")
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At 03:43 PM 7/28/98 +0000, you wrote:

>I rebuild Calc watching carefully this time... Eli was right (No surprise
>there ;)). The reason why my info subfiles overwrote each other was that
>the Calc makefile tries to build calc.info using makeinfo first. Since
>this fails due to unresolved nodes ("Interactive Tutorial" and "Copying",
>see inelegant patch below), makeinfo then deletes the .inf file. The
>makefile then tries to build calc.info using texinfo.el supplied with
>emacs and *this* is not lfn clean. 
>
>If I add ---force as an option in the makefile:
> ($MAKEINFO) --force calc.texinfo,
>then makeinfo does not delete the info files and texinfo.el is not used. 
>I do not know whether the info files so produced are usable.........snip

I have been using my "forced" version for a few days now and it looks good
to me. I am into the
tutorial and I went around at random testing nodes.  Looks good.

When you get a working info please go down near then end and select
"Installation". Then go on to 
"Testing the Installation". Here you will find a line that begins "You may
also wish to test the
GNUPLOT interface;........................." 

This is troubling me. First, the way it is written. Could you clarify it
some? Second, what version or configuration of GNUPLOT is being reffered to?

I have no trouble with anything else so far.

Gentlemen, another thing--a little off topic--but it seems reasonable to me
that one should be able while
in EMACS to be able to quickly go to the main Info (not the Emacs Info) if
one wants to check
something. The only way I can do it is to "suspend" to DOS with Ctrl-z, go
to Info, and then exit back
to where I was. This is not bad, but is there no command that would let me
go to the DJGPP main
Info right from EMACS?

Thanks,

Ralph