On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 2:44 AM David Liu <xdavidliu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm trying to read the gcc info manual on emacs, without download the > entire source of gcc. In particular, I've downloaded tarballs at > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ under "texinfo sources of all the gcc > 8.3.0" manuals. > > However, it is completely unclear what to do with these. Naively attempting > to do `texinfo gcc.texi` fails, complaining about missing files like > `gcc-common.texi`, even though they are easily found in a nearby `include` > directory. > > The issue seems to be that since the standalone texinfo source tarball > doesn't contain any Makefiles, the set of manuals cannot be built. > > Am I missing something obvious here? Maybe use https://github.com/mirrors/gcc to have a look at the Makefiles and find out what the build process does.
