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authorManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-02-10 19:29:18 +0000
committerManuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@linuxfromscratch.org>2006-02-10 19:29:18 +0000
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Ported r7369 from trunk to udev_update branch.
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diff --git a/chapter06/texinfo.xml b/chapter06/texinfo.xml
index 93c83c465..db6f979bd 100644
--- a/chapter06/texinfo.xml
+++ b/chapter06/texinfo.xml
@@ -1,86 +1,103 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
%general-entities;
]>
+
<sect1 id="ch-system-texinfo" role="wrap">
-<title>Texinfo-&texinfo-version;</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="texinfo.html"?>
+ <?dbhtml filename="texinfo.html"?>
+
+ <title>Texinfo-&texinfo-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo">
+ <primary sortas="a-Texinfo">Texinfo</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>The Texinfo package contains programs for reading, writing, and
+ converting info pages.</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo"><primary sortas="a-Texinfo">Texinfo</primary></indexterm>
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-<sect2 role="package"><title/>
-<para>The Texinfo package contains programs for reading, writing, and
-converting info pages.</para>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>0.2 SBU</seg>
+ <seg>14.7 MB</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
-<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>14.7 MB</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
-Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
-</sect2>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc,
+ Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
-<sect2 role="installation">
-<title>Installation of Texinfo</title>
+ </sect2>
-<para>The <command>info</command> program makes assumptions such as that
-a string occupies the same number of character cells on the screen and bytes
-in memory and that one can break the string anywhere, which fail in
-UTF-8 based locales. The patch below makes them valid
-by falling back to English messages when a multibyte locale is in use:</para>
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Texinfo</title>
+
+ <para>The <command>info</command> program makes assumptions such as that
+ a string occupies the same number of character cells on the screen and
+ bytes in memory and that one can break the string anywhere, which fail
+ in UTF-8 based locales. The patch below makes them valid by falling back
+ to English messages when a multibyte locale is in use:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&texinfo-multibyte-patch;</userinput></screen>
-<para>Texinfo allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink
-attack on temporary files. Apply the following patch to fix this:</para>
+ <para>Texinfo allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink
+ attack on temporary files. Apply the following patch to fix this:</para>
<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
-<para>Prepare Texinfo for compilation:</para>
+ <para>Prepare Texinfo for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
-<para>Compile the package:</para>
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>To test the results, issue:
-<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
+ <para>To test the results, issue:
+ <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
-<para>Install the package:</para>
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
-<para>Optionally, install the components belonging in a TeX installation:</para>
+ <para>Optionally, install the components belonging in a TeX
+ installation:</para>
+ <!-- FIXME: doesn't the TeX installation in BLFS overwrite files there? -->
<screen><userinput>make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex</userinput></screen>
-<para>The meaning of the make parameter:</para>
-
-<variablelist>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><parameter>TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf</parameter></term>
-<listitem><para>The <envar>TEXMF</envar> makefile variable holds the location of the
-root of the TeX tree if, for example, a TeX package will be installed
-later.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-</variablelist>
-<!-- FIXME: doesn't the TeX installation in BLFS overwrite files there? -->
-
-<para>The Info documentation system uses a plain text file to hold its
-list of menu entries. The file is located at
-<filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename>. Unfortunately, due to
-occasional problems in the Makefiles of various packages, it can
-sometimes get out of sync with the info pages installed on the
-system. If the <filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename> file ever
-needs to be recreated, the following optional commands will accomplish
-the task:</para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the make parameter:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The <envar>TEXMF</envar> makefile variable holds the location
+ of the root of the TeX tree if, for example, a TeX package will be
+ installed later.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>The Info documentation system uses a plain text file to hold its list of
+ menu entries. The file is located at <filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename>.
+ Unfortunately, due to occasional problems in the Makefiles of various packages,
+ it can sometimes get out of sync with the info pages installed on the system.
+ If the <filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename> file ever needs to be
+ recreated, the following optional commands will accomplish the task:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cd /usr/share/info
rm dir
@@ -88,85 +105,105 @@ for f in *
do install-info $f dir 2&gt;/dev/null
done</userinput></screen>
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2 id="contents-texinfo" role="content"><title>Contents of Texinfo</title>
-
-<segmentedlist>
-<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>info, infokey, install-info,
-makeinfo, texi2dvi, texi2pdf, and texindex</seg></seglistitem>
-</segmentedlist>
-
-<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
-<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
-<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
-<varlistentry id="info">
-<term><command>info</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Used to read info pages which are similar to man pages, but often go much
-deeper than just explaining all the available command line options. For example,
-compare <command>man bison</command> and <command>info bison</command>.</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo info"><primary sortas="b-info">info</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="infokey">
-<term><command>infokey</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Compiles a source file containing Info customizations into a
-binary format</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo infokey"><primary sortas="b-infokey">infokey</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="install-info">
-<term><command>install-info</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Used to install info pages; it updates entries in the
-<command>info</command> index file</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo install-info"><primary sortas="b-install-info">install-info</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="makeinfo">
-<term><command>makeinfo</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Translates the given Texinfo source documents into
-info pages, plain text, or HTML</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo makeinfo"><primary sortas="b-makeinfo">makeinfo</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="texi2dvi">
-<term><command>texi2dvi</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Used to format the given Texinfo document into a
-device-independent file that can be printed</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texi2dvi"><primary sortas="b-texi2dvi">texi2dvi</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="texi2pdf">
-<term><command>texi2pdf</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Used to format the given Texinfo document into a
-Portable Document Format (PDF) file</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texi2pdf"><primary sortas="b-texi2pdf">texi2pdf</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry id="texindex">
-<term><command>texindex</command></term>
-<listitem>
-<para>Used to sort Texinfo index files</para>
-<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texindex"><primary sortas="b-texindex">texindex</primary></indexterm>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-</variablelist>
-
-</sect2>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-texinfo" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Texinfo</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>info, infokey, install-info, makeinfo, texi2dvi, texi2pdf, and
+ texindex</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="info">
+ <term><command>info</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Used to read info pages which are similar to man pages, but
+ often go much deeper than just explaining all the available command
+ line options. For example, compare <command>man bison</command> and
+ <command>info bison</command>.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo info">
+ <primary sortas="b-info">info</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="infokey">
+ <term><command>infokey</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Compiles a source file containing Info customizations into a
+ binary format</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo infokey">
+ <primary sortas="b-infokey">infokey</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="install-info">
+ <term><command>install-info</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Used to install info pages; it updates entries in the
+ <command>info</command> index file</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo install-info">
+ <primary sortas="b-install-info">install-info</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="makeinfo">
+ <term><command>makeinfo</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Translates the given Texinfo source documents into
+ info pages, plain text, or HTML</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo makeinfo">
+ <primary sortas="b-makeinfo">makeinfo</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="texi2dvi">
+ <term><command>texi2dvi</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Used to format the given Texinfo document into a
+ device-independent file that can be printed</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texi2dvi">
+ <primary sortas="b-texi2dvi">texi2dvi</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="texi2pdf">
+ <term><command>texi2pdf</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Used to format the given Texinfo document into a
+ Portable Document Format (PDF) file</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texi2pdf">
+ <primary sortas="b-texi2pdf">texi2pdf</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="texindex">
+ <term><command>texindex</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Used to sort Texinfo index files</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texindex">
+ <primary sortas="b-texindex">texindex</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
</sect1>
-