[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#368843: Broken info-emacs-info

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2006-09-03 16:46]:

> You will find attached below a bug report filed against the Debian package
> octave2.9 regarding the info-emacs-info script.  The followups to this bug
> reported can be seen at:
> 
>     http://bugs.debian.org/368843
> 
> The info-emacs script seems to be still broken in CVS.  As the reporter
> writes, the order of the options in the invocation of INFO_PROGRAM
> changed (--directory comes before --file now) and the old info-emacs-info
> script gets confused.
> 
> Here is a patch that fixes the problem.  [...]

The info-emacs-octave-help seems to suffer from the same problem.  It
may be better to apply the simple patch below to doc.m:

--- doc.m-orig	2006-09-03 17:04:16.216249600 +0200
+++ doc.m	2006-09-03 17:05:35.275230808 +0200
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
       info_file_name = info_file ();
     endif
 
-    cmd = sprintf ("\"%s\" --directory \"%s\" --file \"%s\"",
+    cmd = sprintf ("\"%s\" --file \"%s\" --directory \"%s\"",
 		   info_program (), info_dir, info_file_name);
 
     if (! isempty (fname))
 
-- 
Rafael