Re: [PATCH v2] Always generate perfbook.synctex.gz

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 08:43:39PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:27:36 +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> > From 41473d36c8bfaf96c4d0d0b3ca04f688ae6d4739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:12:24 +0900
> > Subject: [PATCH v2] Always generate perfbook.synctex.gz
> > 
> > Commit 8458f7572335 ("Add optional flag 'LATEX_OPT' in run{first}latex.sh")
> > was ment to support optinal generation of .synctex files.
> > It turns out that evince and gedit pair supports both the forward
> > (.tex -> PDF) and the inverse (PDF -> .tex) searches [1].
> > I find this mechanism helps a lot in perfbook, because of its
> > nested LaTeX source structure.
> > 
> > For forward search (.tex -> PDF) to work, each sub-sources needs
> > to have a pointer to main file in the first/last 3 lines. This
> > commit therefor adds the pointers to top level perfbook.tex.
> > 
> > Also add an entry in FAQ-BUILD.txt as an introduction of the
> > capability.
> > 
> > Note: As SyncTeX search will work only for perfbook.pdf, other
> > targets do not generate .synctex.gz.
> > 
> > [1]: https://help.gnome.org/users/evince/stable/synctex-search.html.en
> > 
> > Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > Changes from v1:
> > 
> > o Simplify setting of LATEX_OPT in Makefile. The behavior is the same as v1.
> > o Add Cc: to Balbir.
> > 
> > I'd like to know this change has no regression with Balbir's workflow.
> > I'm assuming Balbir's viewer and editor combination is something
> > other than evince and gedit.
> 
> Paul, this change does have regression in that the inverse search
> (PDF -> .tex) stops working other than perfbook.pdf.
> 
> Current master allows inverse search from any of perfbook*.pdf.
> 
> So, please hold off this one.

Will do, especially given that this email reached me and the one that
it replies to did not.  ;-)

> Let me try another round to enable forward search of SyncTeX.

Sounds good!

							Thanx, Paul

>         Thanks, Akira
> 
> > 
> >         Thanks, Akira
> > --
> >  FAQ-BUILD.txt                             | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >  Makefile                                  |  5 +++++
> >  SMPdesign/SMPdesign.tex                   |  2 ++
> >  SMPdesign/beyond.tex                      |  4 +++-
> >  SMPdesign/criteria.tex                    |  1 +
> >  SMPdesign/partexercises.tex               |  2 ++
> >  advsync/advsync.tex                       |  2 ++
> >  advsync/rcu.tex                           |  2 ++
> >  advsync/rt.tex                            |  2 ++
> >  appendix/ack/ack.tex                      |  1 +
> >  appendix/appendix.tex                     |  1 +
> >  appendix/questions/after.tex              |  2 ++
> >  appendix/questions/concurrentparallel.tex |  1 +
> >  appendix/questions/questions.tex          |  1 +
> >  appendix/questions/time.tex               |  1 +
> >  appendix/styleguide/styleguide.tex        |  1 +
> >  appendix/toyrcu/toyrcu.tex                |  2 ++
> >  appendix/whymb/whymemorybarriers.tex      |  2 ++
> >  count/count.tex                           |  2 ++
> >  cpu/cpu.tex                               |  1 +
> >  cpu/hwfreelunch.tex                       |  1 +
> >  cpu/overheads.tex                         |  1 +
> >  cpu/overview.tex                          |  2 ++
> >  cpu/swdesign.tex                          |  1 +
> >  datastruct/datastruct.tex                 |  2 ++
> >  debugging/debugging.tex                   |  2 ++
> >  defer/defer.tex                           |  1 +
> >  defer/hazptr.tex                          |  1 +
> >  defer/rcu.tex                             |  3 ++-
> >  defer/rcuapi.tex                          |  4 +++-
> >  defer/rcuexercises.tex                    |  1 +
> >  defer/rcufundamental.tex                  |  2 ++
> >  defer/rcuintro.tex                        |  2 ++
> >  defer/rcurelated.tex                      |  2 ++
> >  defer/rcuusage.tex                        |  2 ++
> >  defer/refcnt.tex                          |  2 ++
> >  defer/seqlock.tex                         |  2 ++
> >  defer/updates.tex                         |  3 ++-
> >  defer/whichtochoose.tex                   |  1 +
> >  easy/easy.tex                             |  1 +
> >  formal/axiomatic.tex                      |  2 ++
> >  formal/dyntickrcu.tex                     |  2 ++
> >  formal/formal.tex                         |  1 +
> >  formal/ppcmem.tex                         |  4 +++-
> >  formal/sat.tex                            |  1 +
> >  formal/spinhint.tex                       |  2 ++
> >  formal/stateless.tex                      |  1 +
> >  future/cpu.tex                            |  1 +
> >  future/formalregress.tex                  |  1 +
> >  future/future.tex                         |  1 +
> >  future/htm.tex                            |  2 ++
> >  future/tm.tex                             |  2 ++
> >  glossary.tex                              |  1 +
> >  howto/howto.tex                           |  2 ++
> >  intro/intro.tex                           |  1 +
> >  legal.tex                                 |  1 +
> >  locking/locking-existence.tex             |  4 +++-
> >  locking/locking.tex                       |  2 ++
> >  memalloc/memalloc.tex                     |  1 +
> >  memorder/memorder.tex                     |  2 ++
> >  owned/owned.tex                           |  2 ++
> >  together/applyrcu.tex                     |  2 ++
> >  together/count.tex                        |  1 +
> >  together/hash.tex                         |  1 +
> >  together/refcnt.tex                       |  2 ++
> >  together/together.tex                     |  1 +
> >  toolsoftrade/toolsoftrade.tex             |  2 ++
> >  67 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
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