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patch #7722: makeinfo.exe version 4.6 (for Octave 'help' command)

Submitter:  a.dawid <dawid>
Submitted:  Sun 05 Feb 2012 10:51:07 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 03 May 2012 09:30:25 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Okay. I'm closing this patch as "done", then.

Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso <jordigh>
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Thu 03 May 2012 09:27:31 PM UTC, comment #3: 

This issue has been reported and discussed also in http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35187

As far as my testing and additional the testing (by Mark Messer)discussed in #35187 above the above With recent Octave-3.6.1_mingw-4.6.2 which + msys makeinfo 4.13 I am not facing this problem.

Since makeinfo.exe is not a standalone application and it depends on some dlls (at least msys makeinfo and another port which I have tested) I prefer to stay with msys makeinfo (already bundled with the installation) instead of complicating octave installation tree with additional binary subdir which will preceed msys/bin in the search  path.

Nitzan Arazi <nitnit>
Thu 03 May 2012 08:19:17 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I checked my VS2010-compiled package and I don't seem that issue. I know I used to have such problems in the past, but it looks fine now.

I tested the following combinations:
- octave 3.6.1 + makeinfo 4.7 (from MiKTeX)
- octave dev branch + makeinfo 4.13 (from MSYS)

Michael Goffioul <goffioul>
Thu 03 May 2012 08:03:30 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Nitzan, Michael, is this patch relevant to your Windows builds?

Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso <jordigh>
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Sun 05 Feb 2012 10:51:07 PM UTC, original submission:  

This old version of makeinfo.exe is issued from a dj203 install.

It is provided to replace the makeinfo.exe file from Octave for users who encounter the problem that the online 'help' command returns truncated and garbled text.

The file can replace the one provided by the original Octave install, in the folder:
<octave install dir>/msys/bin/makeinfo.exe


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