The Info format is supported by Emacs and many other tools as a method for browsing large and small documents. Individual chapters and sections are converted into nodes within the Info document.

The Info format is produced by calling makeinfo on the texi file. The texi can be produced directly from the DocBook file format using the XSL stylesheets.

To build the Info file, use the info target:

$ make manual.info
XML_CATALOG_FILES="/MySQLData/Docs/mysqldoc/trunk/catalog.xml" xsltproc --xinclude --novalid  \
                --stringparam repository.revision "`../tools/get-svn-revision`" \
                --param map.remark.to.para 0 \
                --stringparam qandaset.style "" \
                ../xsl.d/dbk-prep.xsl manual.xml > manual-prepped.xml.tmp2
../tools/bug-prep.pl < manual-prepped.xml.tmp2 > manual-prepped.xml.tmp
../tools/idremap.pl  --srcpath=". ../refman-common ../falcon ../ndbapi" manual-prepped.xml.tmp > manual-prepped.xml.tmp2
mv manual-prepped.xml.tmp2 manual-prepped.xml
rm -f manual-prepped.xml.tmp
XML_CATALOG_FILES="/MySQLData/Docs/mysqldoc/trunk/catalog.xml" xsltproc --xinclude --novalid   \
                --stringparam l10n.gentext.default.language en \
                ../xsl.d/dbk-texi.xsl manual-prepped.xml > manual.texi.tmp
WARNING: FOUND 'REGISTERED' SYMBOL
WARNING: FOUND 'REGISTERED' SYMBOL
WARNING: FOUND 'REGISTERED' SYMBOL
WARNING: FOUND 'REGISTERED' SYMBOL
../tools/fixup-texi.pl manual.texi.tmp > manual.texi.tmp2
rm -f manual.texi.tmp
mv manual.texi.tmp2 manual.texi
makeinfo --no-split -I . manual.texi

Note that during the process we correct some problems in the texi output before it is processed that are known to cause problems when the file is converted to Info format.