Re: CVS Texinfo fails to build the Autoconf manual (from git)

2012-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/16/2012 10:53 AM, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:14:01PM +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Here are the errors that I'm getting: >> >> autoconf.texi:8018: Misplaced } > > I think that this is correct (and my guess is that the other are in fact > consequences and similar o

Re: Fwd: Re: bug version number of autoconf

2012-07-17 Thread gilles . charabot
You've convinced me, I will change my $ PATH, thank you, you do good work. Best regards On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:17:10 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 07/17/2012 11:07 AM, gilles.chara...@charabot-org.fr wrote: and make install to install Autoconf2.62 and I have success in this Why 2.62 and not

Re: CVS Texinfo fails to build the Autoconf manual (from git)

2012-07-17 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:43:17 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 06:44:31PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:19:15 +0200 > > > From: Patrice Dumas > > > Cc: stefano.lattar...@gmail.com, bug-autoconf@gnu.org, bug-texi...@gnu.org > > > > > > My

Re: Fwd: Re: bug version number of autoconf

2012-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/17/2012 11:07 AM, gilles.chara...@charabot-org.fr wrote: >>> and make install to install Autoconf2.62 and I have success in this >> >> Why 2.62 and not 2.69? >> I have tried many of them 2.69 and 2.68 and 2.62 and this is the same > probleme, That should be your hint that the problem is not

Re: CVS Texinfo fails to build the Autoconf manual (from git)

2012-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/17/2012 10:43 AM, Patrice Dumas wrote: > >>> In my opinion it is much better to have something consistent, and >>> leaving the end of line out is also better in my opinion, otherwise it >>> is not possible to have a macro expansion within a line. >> >> If this causes existing uses to break i

Re: CVS Texinfo fails to build the Autoconf manual (from git)

2012-07-17 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 06:44:31PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:19:15 +0200 > > From: Patrice Dumas > > Cc: stefano.lattar...@gmail.com, bug-autoconf@gnu.org, bug-texi...@gnu.org > > > > My wild guess is that this strange behaviour of makeinfo in C is a > > result of

Re: CVS Texinfo fails to build the Autoconf manual (from git)

2012-07-17 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:19:15 +0200 > From: Patrice Dumas > Cc: stefano.lattar...@gmail.com, bug-autoconf@gnu.org, bug-texi...@gnu.org > > My wild guess is that this strange behaviour of makeinfo in C is a > result of the order of expansion that happens by chance, and is not > intended. No,

Re: bug version bug-autoconf

2012-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/17/2012 08:05 AM, gilles.chara...@charabot-org.fr wrote: > First, thanks to you for your free software. I use ./configure and make > and make install to install Autoconf2.62 and I have success in this Why 2.62 and not 2.69? > task. But many gnu software using this version of autoconf say th

bug version bug-autoconf

2012-07-17 Thread gilles . charabot
First, thanks to you for your free software. I use ./configure and make and make install to install Autoconf2.62 and I have success in this task. But many gnu software using this version of autoconf say that is Autoconf 2.59 i am using ! By exemple automake now refuses to compile with. And wh

Re: CVS Texinfo fails to build the Autoconf manual (from git)

2012-07-17 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:18:07PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > This is wrong, the newline at the end of the macro (after the @c) > should be part of the macro expansion. AFAIR, this is how the C > makeinfo worked, because the newline was collected as part of the > macro body when the @macro..