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

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 20:19:32 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On July 6, 2015 8:08:31 PM EDT, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> >On Mon, 06 Jul 2015, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >> Thanks.  Would you be able to look at octave 3.8.2 in unstable as
> >well?  The 
> >> code you fixed in escape-backslash-for-texinfo-in-source isn't in
> >3.8.2, but it 
> >> appears to have similar problems elsewhere.
> >
> >Have you tried fixing the Makefile.am fragment as in the debdiff
> >I sent you? The outdated texinfo.tex is the problem.
> >
> >I am trying a build now with the Makefile.am in doc/interp fixed up.
> 
> I did try that and it changed the error, but it seems there's something else as well.

Much thanks Norbert for investigating and finding the necessary changes.
I've confirmed that these changes are necessary for building upstream
source also. I'll take care of making sure these are addressed upstream.

JFTR, Octave ships texmf.cnf because some older supported distros still
have ‘save_size = 5000’ which has caused errors for some users.

I've updated your patch to use upstream's @xbackslash{} macro instead as
used elsewhere in the documentation for this very purpose, attached.

Also attached is a patch appropriate for 3.8.2 to fix the same class of
markup, adapted from an upstream changeset already part of 4.0 [1].
Tested on 3.8.2 upstream source, not yet tested in a Debian build.

[1] http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/e51473fdb622

-- 
mike
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