error while building gnus.info

error while building gnus.info

[Bill White]

'cvs update; make' at 1043 UTC 27Sep00 gives an error while making
gnus.info:

   ,----
   | [...]
   | 
   | Wrote /home/usr0/billw/emacs-lisp/gnus/lisp/uudecode.elc
   | make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/disk2/billw/emacs/emacs-lisp/gnus/lisp'
   | cd texi && make EMACS="emacs" all
   | make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/disk2/billw/emacs/emacs-lisp/gnus/texi'
   | if test "xmakeinfo" != "xno" ; then \
   |   makeinfo -o gnus gnus.texi; \
   | else \
   |   emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -eval '(find-file "gnus.texi")' -l texinfmt -f texinfo-every-node-update -f texinfo-format-buffer -f save-buffer; \
   | fi
=> | Making info file `gnus' from `gnus.texi'.
=> | ./gnus.texi:16245: Node `GroupLens' missing Up field.
   | makeinfo: Removing output file `gnus' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
   | make[1]: *** [gnus] Error 2
   | make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/disk2/billw/emacs/emacs-lisp/gnus/texi'
   | make: *** [info] Error 2
   | [Wed Sep 27 05:43:06 CDT 2000] [billw@g:~/emacs-lisp/gnus]$
   | [1004]> 
   `----

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Re: error while building gnus.info

[ShengHuo ZHU]

Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:

> 'cvs update; make' at 1043 UTC 27Sep00 gives an error while making
> gnus.info:
> 
>    ,----
>    | [...]
>    | 
>    | Wrote /home/usr0/billw/emacs-lisp/gnus/lisp/uudecode.elc
>    | make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/disk2/billw/emacs/emacs-lisp/gnus/lisp'
>    | cd texi && make EMACS="emacs" all
>    | make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/disk2/billw/emacs/emacs-lisp/gnus/texi'
>    | if test "xmakeinfo" != "xno" ; then \
>    |   makeinfo -o gnus gnus.texi; \
>    | else \
>    |   emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -eval '(find-file "gnus.texi")' -l texinfmt -f texinfo-every-node-update -f texinfo-format-buffer -f save-buffer; \
>    | fi
> => | Making info file `gnus' from `gnus.texi'.
> => | ./gnus.texi:16245: Node `GroupLens' missing Up field.
>    | makeinfo: Removing output file `gnus' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
>    | make[1]: *** [gnus] Error 2
>    | make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/disk2/billw/emacs/emacs-lisp/gnus/texi'
>    | make: *** [info] Error 2
>    | [Wed Sep 27 05:43:06 CDT 2000] [billw@g:~/emacs-lisp/gnus]$
>    | [1004]> 
>    `----

I am not sure whether it is a bug in makeinfo.  Upgrading makeinfo to
4.0 fixes the problem.

ShengHuo

Re: error while building gnus.info

[Bill White]

On Wed Sep 27 2000 at 07:20, ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> said:

  > I am not sure whether it is a bug in makeinfo.  Upgrading makeinfo
  > to 4.0 fixes the problem.

urp!

[1010]> makeinfo --version
makeinfo (GNU texinfo 3.12) 1.68

Much better after upgrading texinfo - thanks!

bw
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