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Re: ada/5907: The Ada front end lacks a proper manual

From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>,gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, brosgol at gnat dot com
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:03:17 -0800
Subject: Re: ada/5907: The Ada front end lacks a proper manual
References: <20020310182234.GA21928@codesourcery.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203101900100.31315-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 07:00:56PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > There isn't any technical difficulty, in principle, with generating
> > .texi files at build time.  In fact, the Fortran front end does this
> > already.  (see f/intdoc.*)
> 
> Note that f/intdoc.texi is in CVS, touched by gcc_update, etc., which
> allows it to work with update_web_docs.

There shouldn't be a problem with either (a) picking one form for the
checked-in documentation, or (b) using the transformer to generate
parametrized Texinfo (with any of several techniques as discussed
elsewhere) which can then be checked in.

zw

References:
- Re: ada/5907: The Ada front end lacks a proper manual
  - From: Zack Weinberg
- Re: ada/5907: The Ada front end lacks a proper manual
  - From: Joseph S. Myers

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