From: | dg(at)informix(dot)com (David Gould) |
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To: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) |
Cc: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Quick cut at an autoconf tutorial |
Date: | 1998-08-17 07:50:33 |
Message-ID: | 9808170750.AA00246@hawk.oak.informix.com |
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> "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
> >> 8. There's really no substitute for reading the autoconf manual ;-).
>
> > Sure, didn't even know one existed. Don't know if it is shipped on my
> > machine, and don't know where to look for one.
> > Oh boy, maybe I'll get to use GNU info! Not. Is there a hardcopy or html
> > version somewhere? *sigh*
>
> Picky picky. The manual comes with the autoconf distribution tarball.
> The master copy is in GNU "texinfo" format, looks like. I always use
> the GNU-info-format version of it, which gets installed automatically
> by autoconf's install script. But this is convenient for me because
> I use the One True Editor, Emacs ;-) ;-). If you don't live in Emacs
> then I agree info format is less than convenient.
There is also 'tkinfo' which makes reading info files fairly painless.
-dg
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