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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>
</sect2>
&env-target;
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Texinfo</title>
<para os="p1">The following patch will add support for new compressors like XZ Utils:</para>
<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&texinfo-new_compressors-patch;</userinput></screen>
<para os="a">Prepare Texinfo for compilation:</para>
<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \
--prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
<para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
<screen os="d"><userinput>make -C tools/gnulib/lib
make -C tools
make</userinput></screen>
<para os="e">Install the package:</para>
<screen os="f"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
<para os="g">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 os="h" role="nodump"><userinput>cd ${CLFS}/usr/share/info
rm dir
for f in *
do install-info ${f} dir 2>/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>
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<?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 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>