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

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Sep-2006, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

| * 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))

I made this change.  Is the other patch for info-emacs-info still
needed?

Thanks,

jwe