Re: texinfo-5.9.90 pretest available

2015-02-26 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:34:03 + > From: Gavin Smith > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Karl Berry , Texinfo > > > I checked the 5.2 release and it was done differently. The code looked like: > > if (*compression_program) > { /* It's compressed, so fclose the file and then open a pipe. */ >

Re: texinfo-5.9.90 pretest available

2015-02-26 Thread Karl Berry
I didn't mean to change this in texi2any.pl that is installed, Additional ugliness and complexity merely to work around Windows deficiencies seems pretty undesirable to me. Eli, groff has a bunch of #!/usr/bin/env perl scripts. What does mingw do with them? (vc-dwim also uses #!/usr/bin/env

Re: texinfo-5.9.90 pretest available

2015-02-26 Thread Gavin Smith
On 26 February 2015 at 20:12, Ken Brown wrote: > Yes, it's an error message from gzip. I stepped through ginstall-info in gdb > and found that the error message comes right after the popen call in line 847 > of install-info.c. > > Maybe I'm missing something, but how could that popen call possi

Re: texinfo-5.9.90 pretest available

2015-02-26 Thread Gavin Smith
On 26 February 2015 at 20:12, Ken Brown wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but how could that popen call possibly DTRT? > "gzip -d" has been called without being given the name of the file to > decompress. It's reading from standard input, which was redirected earlier when the input file wa