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

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Mon Mar 11 02:03:00 GMT 2002


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



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