From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?B?VmluY2VudCBCZWxh72NoZQ==?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Patch to allow texi2any for EMACS manual compilation Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:19:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <807g0ucb2p.fsf@gmail.com> <1vbnq6rmgp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>,<54238692.1040700@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411620278 17006 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2014 04:44:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:44:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel , Karl Berry To: Paul Eggert , Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 25 06:44:29 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 1XX0uo-0002k8-Hk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:44:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37780 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX0un-00006f-Nb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58051) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX0ug-0008WQ-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX0ub-0005pU-S3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from dub004-omc1s15.hotmail.com ([157.55.0.214]:60158) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX0uW-0005nz-QA; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:44:08 -0400 Original-Received: from DUB109-W80 ([157.55.0.239]) by DUB004-OMC1S15.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.22724); Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:19:22 -0700 X-TMN: [2vCsufeW5CNGi1GcIalW9TKDng0cRv7H] X-Originating-Email: [vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr] Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <54238692.1040700@cs.ucla.edu> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Sep 2014 04:19:22.0657 (UTC) FILETIME=[E24F0110:01CFD877] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 157.55.0.214 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:174698 Archived-At: =0A= =0A= ----------------------------------------=0A= > Date: Wed=2C 24 Sep 2014 20:05:54 -0700=0A= > From: eggert@cs.ucla.edu=0A= > To: rgm@gnu.org=3B vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr=0A= > Subject: Re: Patch to allow texi2any for EMACS manual compilation=0A= > CC: karl@freefriends.org=3B emacs-devel@gnu.org=0A= >=0A= > Glenn Morris wrote:=0A= >> Please take a step back and tell us clearly what problem you think you= =0A= >> are trying to solve.=0A= >=0A= Sorry=2C I have been creating some confusion=2C because when trying to solv= e my initial problem (that is configure not accepting that texi2any is used= for compiling the documentation) I have come across another one=2C i.e.=2C= that the [...] encapsulation of interval wildcard (e.g. `[7-9]') does not = work for me=2C 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 j= ust missing the point. Maybe I should open a separate thread for that one ?= =0A= =0A= > I think he's saying the behavior of Texinfo 5's 'makeinfo --help'=0A= > depends on the name used to invoke makeinfo (which is not following the= =0A= > GNU Coding Standards=2C by the way -- Karl=2C should I file a Texinfo bug= =0A= > report or will this email suffice?)=2C and this means Emacs's 'configure'= =0A= > script shouldn't care what that part of the output looks like. I=0A= > installed a patch along those lines as Emacs trunk bzr 117943.=0A= >=0A= =0A= I think this is not a bug in Texinfo. texi2any and makeinfo are two differe= nt programs=2C but texi2any can do whatever makeinfo can=2C and much more. = texi2any is thought as a replacement of makeinfo=2C that is why the version= number has some continuity.=0A= =A0 =A0Vincent. =