Id: README.dev,v 1.7 2003/11/24 15:11:06 karl Exp README.dev - Texinfo developer information. Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. The development sources for Texinfo is available through anonymous cvs at Savannah, see http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=texinfo This distribution uses whatever versions of automake, autoconf, and gettext are listed in NEWS; usually the latest ones released. If you are getting the Texinfo sources from cvs, or change the Texinfo configure.ac, you'll need to have these tools installed to (re)build. You'll also need help2man. (All of these are available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu.) Here's the order in which to run the tools for a fresh build: autoheader # creates config.in, not necessarily needed every time aclocal -I m4 # for a new version of automake automake autoconf configure CFLAGS=-g --enable-maintainer-mode make (with arguments to taste, of course.) Or you can run ./bootstrap instead of the various auto* tools. One final note: If you would like to contribute to the GNU project by implementing additional documentation output formats for Texinfo, that would be great. But please do not write a separate translator texi2foo for your favorite format foo! That is the hard way to do the job, and makes extra work in subsequent maintenance, since the Texinfo language is continually being enhanced and updated. Instead, the best approach is modify Makeinfo to generate the new format, as it does now for Info, HTML, XML, and DocBook.