GCC documentation: info format

GCC documentation: info format

[christophe.jarry]

Hello,

I am currently trying to include GCC documentation into gNewSense  
distribution, in info format. While most of GNU software documentation  
is available directly from GNU site in info format (see  
http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html), I'm surprised to see this is  
not the case for GCC. I would like to know if you could make info  
documentation for GCC available on your website. If not, could you  
please tell me how I can build it.

I tried to "makeinfo -I include/ gcc.texi" inside extracted  
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/docs-sources.tar.gz directory, but have  
the following error:

include//gcc-common.texi:12: @include `gcc-vers.texi': No such file or  
directory.

Where may I find gcc-vers.texi?

Thanks,

Christophe

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Re: GCC documentation: info format

[Diego Novillo]

On 4/9/10 08:08 , christophe.jarry@ouvaton.org wrote:

> I tried to "makeinfo -I include/ gcc.texi" inside extracted
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/docs-sources.tar.gz directory, but have
> the following error:
> 
> include//gcc-common.texi:12: @include `gcc-vers.texi': No such file or
> directory.

To build GCC's documentation, you should configure a build and then run
'make doc' from the GCC build directory:

$ mkdir bld && cd bld
$ ../gcc/configure && make info

Alternately, you can access the GCC documentation at
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/

Diego.

Re: GCC documentation: info format

[Jim Wilson]

On 04/09/2010 05:08 AM, christophe.jarry@ouvaton.org wrote:
> Where may I find gcc-vers.texi?

It is created by the install.texi2html shell script, which also creates 
the HTML output files that go on the web site.  You can probably modify 
this script to generate info files instead, but as Diego mentioned, the 
recommended way to produce info files is to configure and build a full 
source tree.

Don't forget about the libstdc++-v3 docs which are not in the 
docs-sources.tar.gz file.  Also, don't forget about the other docs which 
are not in the gcc/doc directory.  "make info" in a build tree takes 
care of this stuff for you.

Jim

Re: GCC documentation: info format

[Jim Wilson]

On 04/09/2010 05:08 AM, christophe.jarry@ouvaton.org wrote:
> I am currently trying to include GCC documentation into gNewSense
> distribution, in info format.

The binutils response to the same question reminds me that the same 
answer works here.  There are pre-built info files in our official 
releases.  You can grab them from there.  I forgot about this because 
I'm working from the development sources most of the time, and we don't 
have pre-built copies there.

Jim