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<sect1 id="ch-system-texinfo" role="wrap">
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<productname>texinfo</productname>
<productnumber>&texinfo-version;</productnumber>
<address>&texinfo-url;</address>
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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>
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<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>&texinfo-ch6-sbu;</seg>
<seg>&texinfo-ch6-du;</seg>
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</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Texinfo</title>
<para>Prepare Texinfo for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
<title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--disable-static</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>In this case, the top-level configure script will complain that
this is an unrecognized option, but the configure script for
XSParagraph recognizes it and uses it to disable installing a static
<filename class="libraryfile">XSParagraph.a</filename> to <filename
class="directory">/usr/lib/texinfo</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
<para>To test the results, issue:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="install">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 remap="install">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>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>pushd /usr/share/info
rm -v dir
for f in *
do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/null
done
popd</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-texinfo" role="content">
<title>Contents of Texinfo</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>info, install-info, makeinfo (link to texi2any),
pdftexi2dvi, pod2texi, texi2any, texi2dvi, texi2pdf, and texindex</seg>
<seg>XSParagraph.so</seg>
<seg>/usr/share/texinfo and /usr/lib/texinfo</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<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="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="pdftexi2dvi">
<term><command>pdftexi2dvi</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Used to format the given Texinfo document into a
Portable Document Format (PDF) file</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo pdftexi2dvi">
<primary sortas="b-pdftexi2dvi">pdftexi2dvi</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pod2texi">
<term><command>pod2texi</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Converts Pod to Texinfo format</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo pod2texi">
<primary sortas="b-pod2texi">pod2texi</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="texi2any">
<term><command>texi2any</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Translate Texinfo source documentation to
various other formats</para>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-texinfo texi2any">
<primary sortas="b-texiany">texi2any</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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