Re: GCC works.... no

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

Wes Bauske wrote:
> 
> Mark Holloway wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, so I downlaoded/installed make and everything else that goes with
> > it...(except I couldn't find makeinfo).
> 
> A quick search on Altavista says makeinfo is
> some sort of TeX utility.

Not really.  This is a utility which writes info files (those
in your /usr/info/) from 'texinfo' sources.  It is a part of
'texinfo' package.  You may run these sources also through TeX
(and texi2html, and texi2man, and ... ) but this another story.

Name        : texinfo                     Distribution: Manhattan 
Version     : 3.12                              Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release     : 9                             Build Date: Thu Sep 24 21:06:51 1998
Install date: Thu Feb 25 09:39:34 1999      Build Host: porky.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/Publishing       Source RPM: texinfo-3.12-9.src.rpm
Size        : 517416                           License: GPL
Packager    : Red Hat Software <bugs@redhat.com>
Summary     : texinfo formatter and info reader
Description :
The GNU project uses the texinfo file format for much of its documentation.
This package includes the tools necessary to create .info files from .texinfo
source files, as well as an emacs interface to all these tools.

  Michal