You will find attached below a bug report filed against the Debian package
octave2.9 regarding the info-emacs-info script. The followups to this bug
reported can be seen at:
http://bugs.debian.org/368843
The info-emacs script seems to be still broken in CVS. As the reporter
writes, the order of the options in the invocation of INFO_PROGRAM
changed (--directory comes before --file now) and the old info-emacs-info
script gets confused.
Here is a patch that fixes the problem. Notice that I replaced the call to
the deprecated gnudoit by a call to gnuclient.
--- info-emacs-info-orig 2006-09-03 16:35:07.466100032 +0200
+++ info-emacs-info 2006-09-03 16:35:23.113721232 +0200
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@
# Written by Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 1996/07/01
# Make Octave's `help -i' use Emacs info.
# Requires a running Emacs and gnuserv.
-cmd="(Info-find-node \"$2\" \"Top\")"
-if [ $3 = "--directory" ];
+cmd="(Info-find-node \"$4\" \"Top\")"
+if [ $1 = "--directory" ];
then
- cmd="(add-to-list 'Info-directory-list \"$4\") $cmd"
+ cmd="(add-to-list 'Info-directory-list \"$2\") $cmd"
shift 2
fi
cmd="(require 'info) $cmd"
[ $4 ] && cmd="$cmd (Info-index \"$4\")"
-gnudoit -q $cmd
+gnuclient -q -eval "$cmd"
--
Rafael
--- Begin Message ---
Package: octave2.9
Version: 2.9.5-7
Severity: normal
Using `info-emacs-info' (within Emacs) makes the command `doc' fail with
the error message:
error in process filter: byte-code: Info file /usr/share/info does not exist
error in process filter: Info file /usr/share/info does not exist
I think the problem lies in the order of the arguments passed to the
info program, which is different from what `info-emacs-info' expects.
Issuing
doc "whos"
in an Octave terminal outside Emacs launches the program (as shown by
"ps x"):
info --directory /usr/share/info --file /usr/share/info/octave2.9.info
--index-search whos
while the first line of `info-emacs-info' is
cmd="(Info-find-node \"$2\" \"Top\")"
A simple experiment from a bash confirmed this: when `--file' is the
first option passed to the info program, `info-emacs-info' works.
Regards,
Bernardo
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-20050908_01
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages octave2.9 depends on:
ii atlas3-base [liblapack.s 3.6.0-20 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii fftw3 3.0.1-14 library for computing Fast Fourier
ii lapack3 [liblapack.so.3] 3.0.20000531a-6 library of linear algebra routines
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-1 GCC support library
ii libgfortran0 4.0.3-2 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii libglpk0 4.9-1 linear programming kit (shared lib
ii libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0 [ 1.6.5-2 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5)
ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpcre3 6.4-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libreadline5 5.1-7 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libufsparse 1.2-5 collection of libraries for comput
ii refblas3 [libblas.so.3] 1.2-8 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii texinfo 4.8-8 Documentation system for on-line i
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
octave2.9 recommends no packages.
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