lfs-book/chapter06/texinfo.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-texinfo" role="wrap">
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  <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>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&texinfo-ch6-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&texinfo-ch6-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <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>
    <!-- FIXME: doesn't the TeX installation in BLFS overwrite files there? -->

<screen><userinput>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>

    <beginpage/>

<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>

  </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>

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