Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Important bug reports

[Karl Goetz]

On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:17:40 -0500
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

>     The problem is for making an info file from
>     a texi file. When i download gcc texi archive at
>     http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.2/docs-sources.tar.gz, i
> untar it and then cd to gcc/gcc/doc, and then run makeinfo gcc.texi.
> I have various errors, most of them are like the following:
> 
>     /tmp/gcc/gcc/doc//invoke.texi:171: Unknown command « gol »..

In this context, is "gol" a system command, or something built into
texinfo? I ask because I don't see it the packages binary listing:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/texinfo/filelist
/usr/bin/ginstall-info
/usr/bin/makeinfo
/usr/bin/texi2dvi
/usr/bin/texi2pdf
/usr/bin/texindex
kk

> Maybe you are using an old version of Texinfo.
> Could you try first installing the latest one?
> 
> If this is indeed what's wrong, then we need to package the latest
> Texinfo for gNewSense, so people can rebuild this package.


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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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