At the GNU Octave project, there is an intermittent bug that only affects Windows installations. 'help foo' is supposed to display information about the foo command. It does, but the text is garbled on some computers. See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35187
The problem was traced to the most recent release of makeinfo.exe, which is 4.13 from 2008. The most recent snapshot of makeinfo.exe fixes the problem. The Octave project would like to include that latest snapshot of makeinfo.exe in their next release. makeinfo --version reports 4.13 for both the 2008 released version and the snapshot. It would be nice to have a snapshot with a different version. Is this possible? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Messer <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:02 AM Subject: Re: Need a Windows binary of the latest makeinfo for a test To: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> I dropped in the latest makeinfo.exe. It fixed the problem. Thank you. I appreciate the help. On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > > Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 14:56:26 -0800 > > From: Mark Messer <[email protected]> > > > > Octave uses the latest release of makeinfo, which is 4.13 from 2008. I > see > > the source code has been changed since then. For a test, I would like to > > replace makeinfo.exe with a copy from a more recent build. > > > > Most convenient for me would be to download a pre-built Windows binary, > and > > copy makeinfo.exe over my existing makeinfo.exe. Is there such a binary? > I > > am running 32 bit Vista. > > Try the one here: > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/texinfo-4.13a-w32-bin.zip/download > >
