[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
> Ah good, so I'm not alone in thinking that it is ok to build the
> documentation on Linux.

Whoever said it shouldn't be ok to do that? The point is that is
__MUST__ be ok for cygwin users to build. Otherwise we are going
__backwards__.

> Does Cygwin actually have an elaborate build system for documentation?
> (e.g. makefiles, autoconf stuff, etc.)  Or, do the doc builders just
run
> 'db2html' on their Linux boxen when things have been updated?

autoconf is used, not automake:

$ ls /usr/src/src/winsup/doc/
CVS                      faq.texinfo              overview2.sgml
ChangeLog                fhandler-tut.txt         pathnames.sgml
Makefile.in              filemodes.sgml           programming.sgml
calls.texinfo            gcc.sgml                 readme.texinfo
changes.texinfo          gdb.sgml                 relnotes.texinfo
configure                history.texinfo          setup-net.sgml
configure.in             how-api.texinfo          setup.sgml
copy.texinfo             how-programming.texinfo  setup2.sgml
cygwin-api.in.sgml       how-resources.texinfo    textbinary.sgml
cygwin-ug-net.in.sgml    how-using.texinfo        using.sgml
cygwin-ug.in.sgml        how.texinfo              what.texinfo
cygwinenv.sgml           install.texinfo          who.texinfo
dll.sgml                 legal.sgml               windres.sgml
doctool.c                ntsec.sgml
doctool.txt              overview.sgml


> Thanks for the input,
>
> Harold
>
>

Rob