Re: Indices in octave.pdf fail?

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 14:49:32 -0500, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:15 PM Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Is anyone else seeing this problem with the Octave manual on the
> > development branch?
> >
> > If I go to the page for the Concept Index or Function Index or ... I find
> > just this bit of text
> >
> > (Skipped sorted index file in obsolete format)
> >
> > It was cumbersome, but I used hg bisect to track it down to this changeset
> >
> > changeset:   27780:0dad96574d12
> > user:        Rik <address@hidden>
> > date:        Fri Dec 06 11:24:16 2019 -0800
> > summary:     maint: update gnulib ahead of 6.1 release.
> >
> > Do we need to back this changeset out?  Should we update gnulib again in
> > case they have fixed whatever interaction there is with Texinfo?
> >
> 
> I see the same on Fedora.

No, the indices all look fine for me, built with Texinfo 6.7.

But I am also building with an external Gnulib git clone. Can you try
building with

    ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=/path/to/other/gnulib

I'll try again with a copy of gnulib from hg.octave.org.

-- 
mike

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