> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:24:26 -0800 > From: Mark Messer <[email protected]> > Cc: Philip Nienhuis <[email protected]>, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso > <[email protected]>, > Tatsuro MATSUOKA <[email protected]>, Nitzan Arazi > <[email protected]>, > "a.dawid" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > > At the GNU Octave project, there is an intermittent bug that only affects > Windows installations. 'help foo' is supposed to display information about > the foo command. It does, but the text is garbled on some computers. See > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35187 > > The problem was traced to the most recent release of makeinfo.exe, which is > 4.13 from 2008. The most recent snapshot of makeinfo.exe fixes the problem.
I believe by "the most recent snapshot" you mean the precompiled binary from this site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/texinfo-4.13a-w32-bin.zip/download If so, then this is not a development snapshot, it is more or less straightforward MinGW build of stock Texinfo 4.13a distributed by the upstream Texinfo maintainers. (In fact, the C implementation of makeinfo is no longer developed, and instead a new implementation in Perl is being developed as we speak.) > The Octave project would like to include that latest snapshot of > makeinfo.exe in their next release. Feel free to use the precompiled binary from the above site. > makeinfo --version reports 4.13 for both the 2008 released version and the > snapshot. It would be nice to have a snapshot with a different version. Is > this possible? The version string comes from the source code, which I didn't change. The fact that other binaries of the same version crash, while this one doesn't, is because I built this binary and carefully tested it to make sure it works. I guess the binaries that crash were linked with some faulty DLLs and most likely saw much less testing. But no source-level differences exist between these binaries. Why do you care about the version, anyway? I'm reluctant to change the version string without any source-level changes in the code.
