[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#368843: octave2.9: info-emacs-info doesn't work

[Bernardo Dal Seno]

Package: octave2.9
Version: 2.9.5-7
Severity: normal

Using `info-emacs-info' (within Emacs) makes the command `doc' fail with 
the error message:

 error in process filter: byte-code: Info file /usr/share/info does not exist
 error in process filter: Info file /usr/share/info does not exist


I think the problem lies in the order of the arguments passed to the 
info program, which is different from what `info-emacs-info' expects.

Issuing

 doc "whos"

in an Octave terminal outside Emacs launches the program (as shown by 
"ps x"):

 info --directory /usr/share/info --file /usr/share/info/octave2.9.info --index-search whos

while the first line of `info-emacs-info' is

 cmd="(Info-find-node \"$2\" \"Top\")"


A simple experiment from a bash confirmed this: when `--file' is the 
first option passed to the info program, `info-emacs-info' works.


Regards,
Bernardo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-20050908_01
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages octave2.9 depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-20        Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  fftw3                    3.0.1-14        library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra routines
ii  libc6                    2.3.6-7         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.1.0-1       GCC support library
ii  libgfortran0             4.0.3-2         Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libglpk0                 4.9-1           linear programming kit (shared lib
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 [ 1.6.5-2         Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5              5.5-2           Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcre3                 6.4-1.1         Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libreadline5             5.1-7           GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6               4.1.0-1         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libufsparse              1.2-5           collection of libraries for comput
ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]  1.2-8           Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  texinfo                  4.8-8           Documentation system for on-line i
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-11      compression library - runtime

octave2.9 recommends no packages.

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