[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6
Scott Kitterman
debian at kitterman.com
Mon Jul 6 04:55:33 UTC 2015
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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