Date:	Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:37:07 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Marty Leisner <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>
Cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: should I be able to produce 2/21/96 faq on unix?
In-Reply-To:	<9604091847.AA03337@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960411102047.27524F-100000@is>
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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Marty Leisner wrote:

Just for the record: I never meant for the Makefiles to work on any Unix 
system except DJ's server, where I generate the production version of 
the HTML files.  But I'll try to make it more Unix-friendly in future 
releases.

> 1) make enum ./enum (since I don't have . in my path).

I will fix that.

> 2) I added a rule (unixclean) to do:

I want to make the Makefile decide automatically whether it is DOS or 
Unix that it runs on.  Anybody got such a trick up their sleeve?

> gcc -Wall -O2 -s -o enum enum.c
> enum.c: In function `main':
> enum.c:65: warning: implicit declaration of function `perror'

What Unix is that?  Not SunOS by any chance?  Seems that the header files 
don't include function prototypes, so gcc -Wall complains.  Anyway, you 
can safely disregard these warnings.  I'll see what can be reasonably 
done to make these warnings go away in future releases.

> makeinfo --no-split --fill-column 78 -o djgppfaq.info djgppfaq.num
> Making info file `djgppfaq.info' from `djgppfaq.num'.
> djgppfaq.num:4477: Unknown info command `s:.'.
> make: *** [djgppfaq.info] Error 2

On Unix boxes, don't use anything but the latest Texinfo 3.7 to build the
FAQ.  The sources use Texinfo macros heavily, and prior to 3.7 Makeinfo
had subtle bugs in that part.  I found those bugs and corrected them in
Texinfo 3.6 which comes with DJGPP v2.0 (and reported them to FSF), but
they only made it into the official release in 3.7.  I forgot to say so in
the readme file, sorry. 

> Is there a newer faq to get? (I didn't see it on ftp.delorie.com).

Not yet.  I have a large pile of paper sitting on my desk waiting for the 
next release, but I didn't get to it yet.

> btw ... the faq looks really good

Thanks.  Please tell me if you have any comments on the way it is 
organized, cross-referenced and indexed.  I didn't see many 
examples of documents that are specifically built to be easy for 
searching a specific piece of info, so I'd like to hear any feedback you 
can give me.

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