[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

[Norbert Preining]

Postscriptum:

On Mon, 06 Jul 2015, Norbert Preining wrote:
> * finally the critical part - fix the argument processing in texinfo source
>   the problem is basically that 
> 	munge-texi.pl
>   creates code like
> 	@qcode{"\a"}
>   which needs to be changed to
> 	@qcode{"\\a"}
> 
>   THere are *two* occurrences, one in expr.texi (@nospell{"\0"}) and one
>   in errors.texi (@qcode{"\a"}). Below patch changes that in the 
>   *generated* texi files, but when doing a full rebuild these changes
>   are overwritten, so one needs to look into the munge script.

Maybe it is enough to change the two codes in
	libinterp/DOCSTRINGS		for @nospell{"\0"}
	scripts/DOCSTRINGS		for @qcode{"\a"}
as there they are coming from. But I don't know whether these DOCSTRINGS files
are regenerated automatically.

Norbert

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