Re: Texi problem on Solaris (Was: Re: octave forge)

[David Bateman]

What a pain. So we have to add a check for the version of Perl to
configure.base...... How to do that cleanly!!! Perhaps I would
like to see the two version of comms.texi generated to see if
I can use autoconf to test for a working perl rather than select
by version numbers....

D.

According to Dmitri A. Sergatskov <address@hidden> (on 03/06/04):
> I managed to reproduce and figure out the problem that Robert had
> with building docs in octave-forge/main/comm.
> 
> The problem seems to be related to mktexi and using old version of perl.
> E.g. with perl 5.6.0 which I had it builds wrong version of comms.texi.
> (I kept the diff between the right and the wrong version, for those
> who care.) That in turn messes up makeinfo.
> 
> Upgrading to perl 5.8.3 solves the problem: comms.texi files built on Sun or
> on Linux are identical.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Dmitri.

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