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Re: Building Grub2 manual?
From: |
Colin Watson |
Subject: |
Re: Building Grub2 manual? |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:48:56 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
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.
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Colin Watson address@hidden