Re: required makeinfo version

[Alexander Hansen]

On 4/26/13 7:14 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Leo Liu wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On OS X makeinfo is stuck with version 4.8 which is too old but apple
> > isn't upgrading anything in GPL3. So this means by default octave can
> > give something like this:
> >
> > octave> help rand
> > /var/tmp/octave-help-g3O2JI:34: Unknown command `leq'.
> > /var/tmp/octave-help-g3O2JI:34: Misplaced {.
> > /var/tmp/octave-help-g3O2JI:34: Misplaced }.
> > warning: help: Texinfo formatting filter exited abnormally; raw Texinfo source 
> > of help text follows...
> > ......
> > ......
> >
> > octave> help randp
> > /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:23: Unknown command `leq'.
> > /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:23: Misplaced {.
> > /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:23: Misplaced }.
> > /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:31: Unknown command `leq'.
> > /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:31: Misplaced {.
> > /var/tmp/octave-help-TpTbPQ:31: Misplaced }.
> > ......
> > ......
>
> For Fink and Macports, a more recent makeinfo is a dependency.  Are you 
> building Octave and its dependencies from scratch yourself?
>
> Using Macports, my version is 4.13
>
> $ makeinfo --version
> makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.13
>
> Ben
>
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I don't remember if Fink's octave* packages had a dependency on a 
particular version of texinfo at one point, but if so, that got dropped. 
 Now it's back.

I haven't noticed any major problems with building Octave's info docs 
using texinfo-5.1 here, nor with opening them in Octave.

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Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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