1$Id: README.dev,v 1.7 2003/11/24 15:11:06 karl Exp $
2README.dev - Texinfo developer information.
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4  Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6  Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
7  are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
8  notice and this notice are preserved.
9
10The development sources for Texinfo is available through anonymous cvs
11at Savannah, see
12  http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=texinfo
13
14This distribution uses whatever versions of automake, autoconf, and
15gettext are listed in NEWS; usually the latest ones released.  If you
16are getting the Texinfo sources from cvs, or change the Texinfo
17configure.ac, you'll need to have these tools installed to (re)build.
18You'll also need help2man.  (All of these are available from
19ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu.)
20
21Here's the order in which to run the tools for a fresh build:
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23  autoheader    # creates config.in, not necessarily needed every time
24  aclocal -I m4 # for a new version of automake
25  automake
26  autoconf
27  configure CFLAGS=-g --enable-maintainer-mode
28  make
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30(with arguments to taste, of course.)  Or you can run
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32  ./bootstrap
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34instead of the various auto* tools.
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36
37One final note: If you would like to contribute to the GNU project by
38implementing additional documentation output formats for Texinfo, that
39would be great.  But please do not write a separate translator texi2foo
40for your favorite format foo!  That is the hard way to do the job, and
41makes extra work in subsequent maintenance, since the Texinfo language
42is continually being enhanced and updated.  Instead, the best approach
43is modify Makeinfo to generate the new format, as it does now for Info,
44HTML, XML, and DocBook.
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