Re: required makeinfo version

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 26, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Leo Liu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On OS X makeinfo is stuck with version 4.8 which is too old but apple
> isn't upgrading anything in GPL3. So this means by default octave can
> give something like this:
> 
> octave> help rand
> /var/tmp/octave-help-g3O2JI:34: Unknown command `leq'.
> /var/tmp/octave-help-g3O2JI:34: Misplaced {.
> /var/tmp/octave-help-g3O2JI:34: Misplaced }.
> warning: help: Texinfo formatting filter exited abnormally; raw Texinfo 
> source of help text follows...
> ......
> ......
> 
> octave> help randp
> /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:23: Unknown command `leq'.
> /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:23: Misplaced {.
> /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:23: Misplaced }.
> /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:31: Unknown command `leq'.
> /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:31: Misplaced {.
> /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:31: Misplaced }.
> ......
> ......

For Fink and Macports, a more recent makeinfo is a dependency.  Are you 
building Octave and its dependencies from scratch yourself?

Using Macports, my version is 4.13

$ makeinfo --version
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.13

Ben