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Re: required makeinfo version


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: required makeinfo version
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:44:17 +0800

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






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