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Re: Texinfo-4.0 Patch


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> Ok.  After all of the discussion with no clear steps taken, I've built a
> version of texinfo-4.0 myself.  I've been talking to Eli Zaretskii about
> the DJGPP version of texinfo which supposedly has no problems with this
> binmode/textmode stuff.
> 
> The version that I've built seems to correctly handle info files with
> both \r\n and \n line endings so I'm not sure why any patches are needed
> for this.

makeinfo is broken.  e.g. in the bzip2 source or in the cvs source,
running:

makeinfo manual.texi (in bzip2-1.0.1/) says
  manual.texi: bad address

makeinfo cvs.texinfo (in cvs=1.10.0/doc) says
  cvs.texinfo: bad address

Both work fine with the makeinfo from the 'old' distribution.

--Chuck

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