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

[Scott Kitterman]

Thanks,

In the time I had today to work on it today, I didn't figure it out, but thanks 
for the progress.  Hopefully someone else will have time.

Scott K

On Monday, July 06, 2015 10:50:40 AM Norbert Preining wrote:
> 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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