cygwin-doc and newlib

[Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at yahoo dot com>]

In-Reply-To: <20020416031430.GC25464@redhat.com>

> But, where would the user find the info file?  It isn't in any distribution
> yet.

OK, the bad news is 
1. newlib doesn't have any real texinfo documentation.
   There's headers, for example /oss/src/newlib/libm/libm.texinfo, but
   the info pages are generated by a 'makedoc' similar to cygwin's 'doctool'
   except that it produces straight info files--not texinfo. None of the
   function synopses, for example, are in that file
   (BTW I don't understand this; isn't the cygwin package cross-compiled?)
2. The current newlib documentation IS in the distribution; it's in the
   cygwin package in the files: /usr/info/libc.info*, libm.info
   In other words you can't get 'info isalpha', you have to do 'info libc' then
   search for 'isalpha'
3. I found an info2man script that works, but does a horrible job. Everything
   is in one big file ('man libc') and is not properly formatted
4. Even the GNU stuff that uses texi2man requires
   special tags like '@c ifman ...blah blah' to get properly formatted man
   pages.

However, the good news is that since info files are well-formatted it 
looks like it would be relatively easy to write a script that created 
separate man pages for each function. But it will take time. So...

> I don't want to be pushy but I would really prefer that you incorporate
> the newlib stuff via either 1) or 2) (2 preferred).  I foresee confusion
> otherwise.

I'm not following this. What's the confusion in having a completely new
package that doesn't effect in any way newlib-man? Later I can add a the 
newlib stuff and note it in the announcement.


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