Re: Minimum Texinfo version for creating the documentation

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 16:26:26 -0600, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Per JWE's idea, the following seems a minimal script example (first is a
> valid macro name, second not):
> 
> linux@ ~/octave $ (echo "\input texinfo" && echo "@cindex @sortas{test} ing" 
> && echo "@bye") > testtexinfo.texi; texi2dvi --quiet testtexinfo.texi
> linux@ ~/octave $ (echo "\input texinfo" && echo "@cindex @snortas{test} ing" 
> && echo "@bye") > testtexinfo.texi; texi2dvi --quiet testtexinfo.texi
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting.

This works for me on Debian 7 with Texinfo 4.13.

First, just running texi2dvi without any path set to Octave's source
tree:

  $ (echo "\input texinfo" && echo "@cindex @sortas{test} ing" && echo "@bye") 
> testtexinfo.texi; texi2dvi --quiet testtexinfo.texi
  /usr/bin/texi2dvi: etex exited with bad status, quitting.

Now, running with TEXINPUTS set to Octave's source tree, as is done in
the current build process:

  $ export TEXINPUTS=:$HOME/octave/gnulib/build-aux:
  $ (echo "\input texinfo" && echo "@cindex @sortas{test} ing" && echo "@bye") 
> testtexinfo.texi; texi2dvi --quiet testtexinfo.texi

No error here. So this seems to be compatible with Texinfo 4.13.

-- 
mike

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature