From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Building Grub2 manual?
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:48:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100131014856.GO4409@riva.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B64DC0B.2030809@earthlink.net>
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 08:25:31PM -0500, BandiPat wrote:
> Quick question guys! I notice there is a grub.texi file that is suppose
> to be built as a grub.info.gz during the build, which gives you the new
> manual?
>
> I'm not getting that with my build. Now maybe I don't have a program
> installed it needs to make that conversion, but I do not get any
> complaints from the build about something missing.
You need the 'makeinfo' program installed. It's optional, so the build
won't fail if it's missing.
> Normally there is a manual file in different form which creates
> something you can read using the "man grub" command, but it appears you
> guys went another way?
info and man are different styles of documentation. Manual pages tend
to have a quick-reference flavour, whereas info pages are a bit closer
to short books describing the program.
If you have the 'help2man' program installed, then you'll also get
manual pages, albeit only ones generated automatically from the --help
output so they aren't really as good as proper hand-written manual
pages.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-31 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-31 1:25 Building Grub2 manual? BandiPat
2010-01-31 1:46 ` Bruce Dubbs
2010-01-31 1:48 ` Colin Watson [this message]
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