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Re: required makeinfo version


From: Alexander Hansen
Subject: Re: required makeinfo version
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:55:27 -0700
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5

On 4/26/13 7:44 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

On Apr 26, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

On 4/26/13 7:14 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
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

I don't remember if Fink's octave* packages had a dependency on a particular 
version of texinfo at one point, but if so, that got dropped.  Now it's back.

I haven't noticed any major problems with building Octave's info docs using 
texinfo-5.1 here, nor with opening them in Octave.

Alex, are you indicating that Fink is using Apple's makeinfo to build Octave?  
I haven't bothered to tack it down, but I'd assumed the texinfo stuff was part 
of TeX-live.

Ben





It was using whatever makeinfo was first in the PATH. Our texinfo package is broken out to be separate from texlive, but the latter carries a dependency on the former.

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Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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