On 6/17/2024 3:59 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 03:58:08AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
Summarizing the results from [2]:
- On Cygwin and mingw, there are many test failures, some of which
look like CR-LF / LF mismatches.
I just took a look at the log on Cygwin, and
I'm probably the only person building texinfo on Cygwin, but this is just a
heads-up that there's a bug in gnulib/m4/threadlib.m4 that can cause mysterious
crashes that are very hard to debug. The bug shows up when running 'make check'
in the info subdirectory. 13 of the 85 tests fail because
Building the current git HEAD on Cygwin (and probably some other platforms)
fails with link errors:
libtool: link: gcc -shared .libs/MiscXS.o .libs/misc.o
-L/usr/lib/perl5/5.32/x86_64-cygwin-threads/CORE -lperl -ggdb -O2
-fstack-protector-strong -O3 -o .libs/MiscXS.dll
On 7/6/2021 10:08 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 2:09 PM Ken Brown wrote:
It was just reported on the Cygwin mailing list that makeinfo can't be used in a
pipeline any more:
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-July/248849.html
I assume this is not an intentional
On 7/3/2021 7:44 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
We have released version 6.8 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format.
This package contains tools to produce documentation in various
formats, including HTML and PDF, from source files in the Texinfo
format. Texinfo is a text-based format with commands
On 6/7/2017 1:14 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 09:56:37PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
I've committed a change to do this. I copied the test from the
top-level configure.ac to see if we are on MS-Windows:
host_is_windows=no
case "$host" in
*-mingw32 | *-mingw64 | *-
On 6/6/2017 5:22 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 08:50:48PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 12:14:04PM -0700, Li Er wrote:
I tried my build with TEXINFO_XS=debug and it states 'XSParagraph.so loaded',
so I think it's working well.
If there's no shared libperl,
On 3/2/2017 4:10 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hello, Ken
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 17:27:28 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
On 3/1/2017 4:45 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hello, texinfo.
I've just installed texinfo 6.1, and am having difficulty generating a
.dvi file. I've encountered inadequate
On 12/7/2016 3:31 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On 26 November 2016 at 18:08, Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> wrote:
The variable EGREP is used in info/t/Init-inter.inc but not defined. This
leads to errors like the following when the tests are run on Cygwin:
info/t/Init-inter.inc: line 2
On 10/30/2016 2:31 PM, Liviu Ionescu wrote:
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt etex.fmt
Can't locate mktexlsr.pl in @INC (@INC contains:
/Users/ilg/Work/no-backup/texlive/tlpkg
/Users/ilg/Work/no-backup/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
[...]
It looks like there's something wrong with your TeX Live
On 9/6/2016 12:59 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 9/6/2016 12:55 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 9/5/2016 5:35 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
The next pretest for the next Texinfo release has been uploaded to
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.91.tar.xz
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.91
On 9/6/2016 12:55 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 9/5/2016 5:35 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
The next pretest for the next Texinfo release has been uploaded to
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.91.tar.xz
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.91.tar.xz
There have been a few changes since
On 9/5/2016 5:35 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
The next pretest for the next Texinfo release has been uploaded to
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.91.tar.xz
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.1.91.tar.xz
There have been a few changes since the previous pretest:
* A few translation
On 3/4/2016 2:39 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
I think I've fixed it now. (SVN revision 7040).
Confirmed. Thanks for the quick fix.
Ken
In r6655 '?' was changed so that it no longer lists all commands. But
the directory header doesn't still says it does. Here's the trivial patch:
Index: info/dir.c
===
--- info/dir.c (revision 7037)
+++ info/dir.c (working copy)
On 3/3/2016 7:21 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
A Cygwin user reported a crash as in the subject. I traced it to line
468 of info/infokey.c, in which there is a reference to
function_doc_array[a] with a == A_INVALID:
ke.value.function = _doc_array[a];
As a result, ke.value.function contains garbage
A Cygwin user reported a crash as in the subject. I traced it to line
468 of info/infokey.c, in which there is a reference to
function_doc_array[a] with a == A_INVALID:
ke.value.function = _doc_array[a];
As a result, ke.value.function contains garbage. The following patch
appears to fix
On 2/6/2016 2:32 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On 6 February 2016 at 19:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
We have released Texinfo 6.1, the GNU documentation format.
Thanks.
I had the compilation warnings shown at the end of this message when
building this with MinGW on MS-Windows.
I ignored
On 1/23/2016 8:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Ken, can you tell what "OS" does the Cygwin port of Perl report? I
hope it's something different from the native Windows port, so we
could easily distinguish between them.
$ perl -e 'print "$^O\n";'
cygwin
Ken
On 1/15/2016 7:30 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On 14 January 2016 at 19:12, Gavin Smith wrote:
I'm inclined to add "-L$(PERL_INC) -lperl", with "-lperl" determined
from perl -V:libperl, with a special case for cygwin to change
"cygperl5_22.dll" into -lperl.
Done.
This
On 1/14/2016 7:02 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On 13 January 2016 at 20:09, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:42:45 +
From: Gavin Smith
Cc: Texinfo
It would appear to be inappropriate to add the -no-undefined flag
On 1/13/2016 3:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 19:42:45 +
From: Gavin Smith
Cc: Texinfo
It would appear to be inappropriate to add the -no-undefined flag
unconditionally.
Then we should do so conditionally, I guess.
On 1/2/2016 8:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Cc: gavinsmith0...@gmail.com, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
From: Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 08:31:26 -0500
-XSParagraph_la_LDFLAGS=-no-undefined -avoid-version -module
$(PERL_CONF_cccdlflags)
+XSParagraph_la_LDFLAGS=-no-und
On 1/2/2016 8:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Cc: gavinsmith0...@gmail.com, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
From: Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 08:31:26 -0500
-XSParagraph_la_LDFLAGS=-no-undefined -avoid-version -module
$(PERL_CONF_cccdlflags)
+XSParagraph_la_LDFLAGS=-no-und
On 1/1/2016 6:08 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The next problem was with linking TestXS as a shared library. Because
> no undefined references are allowed when linking a shared library on
> MS-Windows, the linker needs to see an import library which tells it
> where to find the Perl functions at run
On 3/28/2015 11:07 AM, Heinz Rommerskirchen wrote:
The man page for install-info says The full documentation for
install-info is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
It goes on to say, If the info and install-info programs are properly
installed at your site, the command
info
On 2/27/2015 9:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:43:48 +
From: Gavin Smith gavinsmith0...@gmail.com
Cc: Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org, Karl Berry k...@freefriends.org, Texinfo
bug-texinfo@gnu.org
On 27 February 2015 at 13:13, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote
On 1/20/2015 1:06 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
I'm testing building Kawa (including kawa.info) using Cygwin, and
ran into this puzzling problem:
$ makeinfo -I . -o kawa.info kawa.texi
kawa.texi:123: @include: could not find version.texi
kawa.texi:130: warning: undefined flag: UPDATED
...
Line 123
On 10/16/2014 2:01 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
could/should make this clearer in the manual.
Something like this?
Index: doc/texinfo.texi
===
--- doc/texinfo.texi(revision 5878)
+++ doc/texinfo.texi(working copy)
@@ -17621,7
This is a followup to a discussion on the AUCTeX list starting here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex/2014-10/msg00018.html .
See especially
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex/2014-10/msg00026.html .
The issue that arose is that a pdf version of the AUCTeX manual can be
On 10/6/2014 3:48 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote:
I just took over as the Cygwin maintainer of Texinfo, and I bumped into a
few (easily fixed) build problems. The first two exist in texinfo-5.2, and
the rest only in the trunk.
I
On 10/3/2014 2:31 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
What about file names with drive letters? Experience (in the GNU Make
department) indicates that some Cygwin users want that, perhaps
because they use Cygwin tools outside of the Cygwin environment.
OK, maybe I shouldn't rock the boat. I'll withdraw
I just took over as the Cygwin maintainer of Texinfo, and I bumped into a few
(easily fixed) build problems. The first two exist in texinfo-5.2, and the rest
only in the trunk.
1. The compiler produces lots of warnings about setmode being redefined. It
would be simple to silence the
On 10/2/2014 4:37 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
1. The compiler produces lots of warnings about setmode being redefined. It
would be simple to silence the warnings, but the real issue in my opinion is
that Cygwin should be treated the same as Unix, so that there's no need for
setmode at all:
Index:
On 10/2/2014 6:24 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
I think it's all OK, but I have to think a little more about comparison of file
names. I'll get back to you on that.
I'm not sure about comparison of file names, so maybe it would be safer to use
case-insensitive comparison as before. This requires
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