As all of the information in the Texinfo manual had been converted to
Unix manual pages some time ago, remove GNU Texinfo as a distribution
dependency. The rationale is that manual pages (roff) has more support
in various editors than Texinfo and the man utility is rather well
understood in contrast to the poor quality of the stand-alone GNU info
utility. Several utilities are available to convert the roff man pages
into various formats such as HTML and PDF.
Virtual com ports providing a TS-2000 Emulator
Example connecting N1MM or such to FLRig via COM5/COM6 virtual COM pair
rigctlcom -m 4 -R COM5 -S 115200
N1MM connects to COM6 TS-2000 115200 8N1
Per the suggestion of Greg Troxel, N1DAM, remove the need for the 'makeinfo'
dependency at build time by creating the HTML version of the manual along with
the info version at 'make dist' time. The removes the build dependency on
'makeinfo' that was introduced since the release of 3.1.
Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH for testcpp and testrig in the generated test
shell scripts corrects a long-standing bug that broke 'make check'.
Add Hamlib_design.eps to allow 'make dvi' to succeed when running
'make distcheck'.
Building PDF may be problematic with older texinfo tools so don't build
or distribute the PDF version of the manual. On systems with a newer
texinfo installation, 'make pdf' will generate a print version of the
manual.
Make working with the texinfo files more manageable by splitting the
large chapters into their own files.
Actually include the texinfo files into the source distribution.
After much consideration, texinfo was chosen for the Hamlib manual.
Initially Docbook had been considered and then abandoned. Doxygen
generated output from the source files has filled that role since but
experience has shown that more explanation would be useful. ASCIIdoc
had been considered and while HTML and PDF outputs are possible, GNU
info style documentation seems not to be. Texinfo provides for all
three and is easily integrated into Automake and enables version and
update variables generated by Autotools to be easily integrated into the
documentation.
The manual is released under the GNU Free Document License with no
invariant sections and no cover texts. This meets the current Debian
Free Software Guidelines.
Nate Bargmann