Re: makeinfo --pdf vs Emacs texi2pdf strategy

Heime <[email protected]> writes:

> In Makefile.in for making the Emacs documentation, there is
>
> emacs.pdf: ${EMACSSOURCES}
> 	$(ENVADD) $(TEXI2PDF) $<
>
> I want to produce the .pdf for my program with makeinfo, but it seems 
> that the correct approach would be to add -o $@
>
> $(trgdir)/antares.pdf: ${srcs} | ${trgdir}
> 	makeinfo --pdf -o $@ $<
>

There several options, as documented in the ‘texinfo’ user
manual:

  (info "(texinfo) Invoking texi2any")
  (info "(texinfo) texi2any Printed Output")

You can try:
1.  texi2pdf $<
2.  texi2any --pdf $<
3.  texi2any --dvipdf $<

Or, more simply, test to verify that you can create a .pdf
file from a .texi file by issuing one of those commands at a
shell prompt, and then add them to your makefile:

  $ texi2pdf My-Texinfo-File.texi

Needless to say, these are not Emacs or Emacs Lisp questions
and so belong on a different mailing list.  The mailing list
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