On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 02:56:26PM -0800, Mark Messer wrote: > At the GNU Octave project, there is an intermittent bug that only affects > Windows installations. help foo is supposed to display infomartion about > the foo command. It does, but the text is garbled on some computers. See > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35187 > > Otherwise, I will follow the directions in the djcpp README. If I need to > do this, it would help if you could tell me the command to download a > reasonably stable version of the sources from CVS.
makeinfo in C is being replaced by a perl implementation, in tp/texi2any(.pl). You can use the texinfo CVS, it should work as usual. The latest CVS should be stable these days. Getting CVS is explained on http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=texinfo cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/sources/texinfo co texinfo -- Pat
