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index d61df477b..8434c7112 100644
--- a/chapter06/texinfo.xml
+++ b/chapter06/texinfo.xml
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
%general-entities;
]>
-<sect1 id="ch-system-texinfo" role="wrap">
- <?dbhtml filename="texinfo.html"?>
+<sect1 id="ch-system-texinfo-temp" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="texinfo-temp.html"?>
<sect1info condition="script">
<productname>texinfo</productname>
@@ -16,23 +16,25 @@
<title>Texinfo-&texinfo-version;</title>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo">
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo-temp">
<primary sortas="a-Texinfo">Texinfo</primary>
+ <secondary>temporary</secondary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title/>
- <para>The Texinfo package contains programs for reading, writing, and
- converting info pages.</para>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+ href="../chapter08/texinfo.xml"
+ xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
- <seg>&texinfo-ch6-sbu;</seg>
- <seg>&texinfo-ch6-du;</seg>
+ <seg>&texinfo-ch5-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&texinfo-ch5-du;</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
@@ -43,194 +45,29 @@
<para>Prepare Texinfo for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
- <variablelist>
- <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><parameter>--disable-static</parameter></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>In this case, the top-level configure script will complain that
- this is an unrecognized option, but the configure script for
- XSParagraph recognizes it and uses it to disable installing a static
- <filename class="libraryfile">XSParagraph.a</filename> to <filename
- class="directory">/usr/lib/texinfo</filename>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
+ <note>
+ <para>As part of the configure process, a test is made that indicates an
+ error for TestXS_la-TestXS.lo. This is not relevant for LFS and should be
+ ignored.</para>
+ </note>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
- <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
-
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
- <para>Optionally, install the components belonging in a TeX
- installation:</para>
- <!-- FIXME: doesn't the TeX installation in BLFS overwrite files there? -->
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex</userinput></screen>
-
- <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>pushd /usr/share/info
-rm -v dir
-for f in *
- do install-info $f dir 2&gt;/dev/null
-done
-popd</userinput></screen>
-
</sect2>
- <sect2 id="contents-texinfo" role="content">
- <title>Contents of Texinfo</title>
-
- <segmentedlist>
- <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
- <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
-
- <seglistitem>
- <seg>info, install-info, makeinfo (link to texi2any),
- pdftexi2dvi, pod2texi, texi2any, texi2dvi, texi2pdf, and texindex</seg>
- <seg>MiscXS.so, Parsetexi.so, and XSParagraph.so
- (all in /usr/lib/texinfo)</seg>
- <seg>/usr/share/texinfo and /usr/lib/texinfo</seg>
- </seglistitem>
- </segmentedlist>
+ <sect2 role="content">
+ <title/>
- <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="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="pdftexi2dvi">
- <term><command>pdftexi2dvi</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Used to format the given Texinfo document into a
- Portable Document Format (PDF) file</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo pdftexi2dvi">
- <primary sortas="b-pdftexi2dvi">pdftexi2dvi</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="pod2texi">
- <term><command>pod2texi</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Converts Pod to Texinfo format</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo pod2texi">
- <primary sortas="b-pod2texi">pod2texi</primary>
- </indexterm>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="texi2any">
- <term><command>texi2any</command></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Translate Texinfo source documentation to
- various other formats</para>
- <indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texi2any">
- <primary sortas="b-texiany">texi2any</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>
+ <para>Details on this package are located in
+ <xref linkend="contents-texinfo" role="."/></para>
</sect2>