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B.2.6 Building the Documentation
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The generated Info documentation is included in the distribution 'tar'
files and in the Git source code repository; you should not need to
rebuild it.  However, if it needs to be done, simply running 'make' will
do it, assuming that you have a recent enough version of 'makeinfo'
installed.

   If you wish to build the PDF version of the manuals, you will need to
have TeX installed, and possibly additional packages that provide the
necessary fonts and tools, such as 'dvi2pdf' and 'ps2pdf'.  You will
also need GNU Troff ('groff') installed in order to format the reference
card and the manual page (*note Distribution contents::).  Managing this
process is beyond the scope of this Info file.

   Assuming you have all you need, then the following commands produce
the PDF versions of the documentation:

     cd doc
     make pdf

This creates PDF versions of all three Texinfo documents included in the
distribution, as well as of the manual page and the reference card.

   Similarly, if you have a recent enough version of 'makeinfo', you can
make the HTML version of the manuals with:

     cd doc
     make html

This creates HTML versions of all three Texinfo documents included in
the distribution.