From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 9 13:50:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5646237B417; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 13:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from pulcherrima (pulcherrima [128.130.111.23]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA9LopI27661; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 22:50:51 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 22:50:48 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Cc: Subject: *.info documentation missing for CVS (and other GNU tools) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /usr/share/info/ is empty on a more or less default installation of 4.4-RELEASE, even though GCC, CVS, and other GNU tools are part of the base system. Especially in the case of CVS (and I believe also GCC and others) this is extremely bad, because the man pages of these programs are incomplete, and the only way to get the full documentation is by using the *.info files. Is there any specific reason why these are not included in FreeBSD? pulcherrima[173]:/FreeBSD/src/contrib/cvs% find . -name '*info*' ./src/parseinfo.c ./doc/cvs.texinfo *.info files are generated from *.texinfo, and cvs.texinfo *is* part of the FreeBSD source tree, as are /usr/bin/info (the info browser) and /usr/bin/makeinfo (the compiler). Could we also have the generated *.info files become part of the base system? Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message