makeinfo problem with 3.1.6?

makeinfo problem with 3.1.6?

[John S Cooper]

[I'm using the standard tools that came with RedHat Linux 6.1]

The zsh 3.1.6 binaries built fine, but I get the following errors from
`makeinfo':

  $ make                                                                ~/zsh-3.1.6/Doc
  makeinfo ./zsh.texi; exit 0
  ./zsh.texi:975: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:982: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:982: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:2343: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:5548: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:5770: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:8459: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:9229: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:9317: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:10639: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:11120: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  ./zsh.texi:11343: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.
  makeinfo: Removing output file `/home/johnc/zsh-3.1.6/Doc/zsh.info' due to errors; use --force to preserve.
  $ makeinfo --version                                                  ~/zsh-3.1.6/Doc
  makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 3.12h

  Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software
  under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
  For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
  $                                                                     ~/zsh-3.1.6/Doc


I don't know `texi' and `makeinfo', but like using `info' in Emacs.  Any ideas
how to fix this?

[Please Cc me on any replies, as I'm not on the mailing list]

Thanks,

    --- John

Re: makeinfo problem with 3.1.6?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Mar 17,  3:29pm, John S Cooper wrote:
} Subject: makeinfo problem with 3.1.6?
}
} [I'm using the standard tools that came with RedHat Linux 6.1]
} 
} The zsh 3.1.6 binaries built fine, but I get the following errors from
} `makeinfo':
} 
}   ./zsh.texi:975: Use braces to give a command as an argument to @'.

Are you using 3.1.6 or 3.1.6-dev-19 or ...?

The problem is that @' was simply a quoted ' in makeinfo before some
fairly recent version (don't recall exactly which), when it changed to
become an introducer for some kind of international character support.
A patch appeared in zsh-workers/7414 and has been in the development
sources since 3.1.6-*-3.

Here again is that patch:

Index: ztexi.yo
===================================================================
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
   NOTRANS(@c %**end of header)NL()\
   NL()\
   NOTRANS(@ifinfo)NL()\
-  NOTRANS(@set dsq @'@')NL()\
+  NOTRANS(@set dsq '@:')NL()\
   NOTRANS(@end ifinfo)NL()\
   NOTRANS(@iftex)NL()\
   NOTRANS(@set dsq '{}')NL()\


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