From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vincent_Bela=EFche?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Patch to allow texi2any for EMACS manual compilation Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:45:02 +0200 Message-ID: <80tx3wb969.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411620355 17639 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2014 04:45:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:45:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vincent_Bela=EFche?= , Karl Berry , EMACS devel list To: Glenn Morris , Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 25 06:45:43 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XX0w3-000420-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:45:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37791 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX0w2-0000lP-QK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58399) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX0vt-0000l1-3B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:45:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX0vo-0006G2-MJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:45:33 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp04.smtpout.orange.fr ([80.12.242.126]:28671 helo=smtp.smtpout.orange.fr) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX0vo-0006Er-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from CHOUNEK ([90.32.172.128]) by mwinf5d59 with ME id vGlL1o0042maGi203GlLZ3; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:45:22 +0200 X-ME-Helo: CHOUNEK X-ME-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:45:22 +0200 X-ME-IP: 90.32.172.128 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.12.242.126 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174699 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Ooops... please ignore the first statement about [...] encapsulation in my previous email, I had missed Glenn's answer that these are simply M4 quotes --- the full story is that in order not to run the full configure which is really lengthy I did some trials with a simple cut & paste without paying attention to dequoting. So in a nutshell, I meant that I do not think that this is a bug in Texinfo, because texi2any and makeinfo are two different programs. Vincent. PS: patch update. --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-patch Content-Disposition: inline; filename=configure.ac.diff === modified file 'configure.ac' --- configure.ac 2014-09-15 00:20:21 +0000 +++ configure.ac 2014-09-25 04:41:34 +0000 @@ -1103,10 +1103,11 @@ MAKEINFO=makeinfo fi case `($MAKEINFO --version) 2>/dev/null` in - 'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '4.[[7-9]]* | \ - 'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '4.[[1-9][0-9]]* | \ - 'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '[[5-9]]* | \ - 'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '[[1-9][0-9]]* ) ;; + # ???????? matches both makeinfo & texi2any + ????????' (GNU texinfo) '4.[[7-9]]* | \ + ????????' (GNU texinfo) '4.[[1-9][0-9]]* | \ + ????????' (GNU texinfo) '[[5-9]]* | \ + ????????' (GNU texinfo) '[[1-9][0-9]]* ) ;; *) MAKEINFO=no;; esac fi --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain ---------------------------------------- > From: vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr > To: eggert@cs.ucla.edu; rgm@gnu.org > CC: karl@freefriends.org; emacs-devel@gnu.org > Subject: RE: Patch to allow texi2any for EMACS manual compilation > Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:33:34 +0200 > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:05:54 -0700 > > From: eggert@cs.ucla.edu > > To: rgm@gnu.org; vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr > > Subject: Re: Patch to allow texi2any for EMACS manual compilation > > CC: karl@freefriends.org; emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > Glenn Morris wrote: > >> Please take a step back and tell us clearly what problem you think you > >> are trying to solve. > > > Sorry, I have been creating some confusion, because when trying to solve my initial problem (that is configure not accepting that texi2any is used for compiling the documentation) I have come across another one, i.e., that the [...] encapsulation of interval wildcard (e.g. `[7-9]') does not work for me, and I am not even sure that it should work at all because I did not find its documentation in bash manual --- but I suspect that I am just missing the point. Maybe I should open a separate thread for that one ? > > > I think he's saying the behavior of Texinfo 5's 'makeinfo --help' > > depends on the name used to invoke makeinfo (which is not following the > > GNU Coding Standards, by the way -- Karl, should I file a Texinfo bug > > report or will this email suffice?), and this means Emacs's 'configure' > > script shouldn't care what that part of the output looks like. I > > installed a patch along those lines as Emacs trunk bzr 117943. > > > > I think this is not a bug in Texinfo. texi2any and makeinfo are two different programs, but texi2any can do whatever makeinfo can, and much more. texi2any is thought as a replacement of makeinfo, that is why the version number has some continuity. > Vincent. --=-=-=--