From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Quick cut at an autoconf tutorial |
Date: | 1998-08-17 03:30:53 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.02.9808170029590.584-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
> >> 8. There's really no substitute for reading the autoconf manual ;-).
>
> > Sure, didn't even know one existed. Don't know if it is shipped on my
> > machine, and don't know where to look for one.
> > Oh boy, maybe I'll get to use GNU info! Not. Is there a hardcopy or html
> > version somewhere? *sigh*
>
> Picky picky. The manual comes with the autoconf distribution tarball.
> The master copy is in GNU "texinfo" format, looks like. I always use
> the GNU-info-format version of it, which gets installed automatically
> by autoconf's install script. But this is convenient for me because
> I use the One True Editor, Emacs ;-) ;-). If you don't live in Emacs
> then I agree info format is less than convenient.
Actually, I just type 'info autoconf' on my machine(s) to read
it...I don't use emacs myself, and don't find that 'info' requires
fore-knowledge of it
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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