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

[Norbert Preining]

On Mon, 06 Jul 2015, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 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.

Probably the attached patch instead of editing the DOCSTRINGS
will work

Norbert

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 libinterp/corefcn/utils.cc |    2 +-
 scripts/io/beep.m          |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- octave.orig/libinterp/corefcn/utils.cc
+++ octave/libinterp/corefcn/utils.cc
@@ -1379,7 +1379,7 @@
 \n\
 Implementation Note: Strings are first converted to double values before the\n\
 checks for valid indices are made.  Unless a string contains the NULL\n\
-character @nospell{\"\\0\"}, it will always be a valid index.\n\
+character @nospell{\"\\\\0\"}, it will always be a valid index.\n\
 @end deftypefn")
 {
   octave_value retval;
--- octave.orig/scripts/io/beep.m
+++ octave/scripts/io/beep.m
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} beep ()
 ## Produce a beep from the speaker (or visual bell).
 ##
-## This function sends the alarm character @qcode{"\a"} to the terminal.
+## This function sends the alarm character @qcode{"\\a"} to the terminal.
 ## Depending on the user's configuration this may produce an audible beep,
 ## a visual bell, or nothing at all.
 ## @seealso{puts, fputs, printf, fprintf}