[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55952] build fails with texinfo error "Macro name seealso already defined"

[Mike Miller]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55952>

                 Summary: build fails with texinfo error "Macro name seealso
already defined"
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: mtmiller
            Submitted on: Mon 18 Mar 2019 04:25:18 PM PDT
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Build Failure
                  Status: Confirmed
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

My recent builds are failing at doc/interpreter/octave.dvi with


TEXINPUTS="../build-aux:$TEXINPUTS" \
MAKEINFO='/bin/bash /home/mike/src/octave/default/build-aux/missing makeinfo  
-I doc/interpreter -I ../doc/interpreter' \
texi2dvi  --build-dir=doc/interpreter/octave.t2d -o doc/interpreter/octave.dvi
 \
`test -f 'doc/interpreter/octave.texi' || echo
'/home/mike/src/octave/default/+build-default/../'`doc/interpreter/octave.texi
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2019/dev/Debian)
(preloaded format=etex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(/home/mike/src/octave/default/+build-default/../doc/interpreter/octave.texi
(/home/mike/src/octave/default/build-aux/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2019-03-16.20]: pdf, fonts, markup, glyphs,
page headings, tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments,
defuns, macros, cross references, insertions,
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.4 <14 February 2011>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.)
(/home/mike/src/octave/default/+build-default/../doc/interpreter/macros.texi
/home/mike/src/octave/default/+build-default/../doc/interpreter/macros.texi:51:
 Macro name seealso already defined.
@macroxxx address@hidden @macname @space already defined}
                                                  @fi @global @cslet
{macsav...
l.51 @macro seealso {args}
                          
? 


The relevant error message in that mess of output is "Macro name seealso
already defined" (I think).

The entire build was done with 'make -j1', so no parallelism problem.

This bug only started appearing in my builds today, possibly due to distro
updates over the weekend. Possibly due to gnulib updates?

Marking as confirmed since @haawda originally reported this on bug #55225.




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