lfs-book/chapter06/texinfo.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-texinfo" role="wrap">
<title>Texinfo-&texinfo-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo"><primary sortas="a-Texinfo">Texinfo</primary></indexterm>

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<para>The Texinfo package contains programs for reading, writing, and
converting info pages.</para>

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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>0.2 SBU</seg><seg>14.7 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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<segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils,
Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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<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>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>

<para>Prepare Texinfo for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>To test the results, issue:
<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>

<para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

<para>Optionally, install the components belonging in a TeX installation:</para>

<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>
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<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
for f in *
do install-info $f dir 2&gt;/dev/null
done</userinput></screen>

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<sect2 id="contents-texinfo" role="content"><title>Contents of Texinfo</title>

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<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>info, infokey, install-info,
makeinfo, texi2dvi, texi2pdf, and texindex</seg></seglistitem>
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<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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<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>

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