> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:28:46 +0100
>
> We have released version 6.7 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format.
>
> This package contains tools to produce documentation in various
> formats, including HTML and PDF, from source files in the Texinfo
> format. Texinfo is a text-based format with commands for marking text,
> document structuring and indexing.
>
> The highlight of this release is improved indexing facilities.
>
> http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.tar.xz
> http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.tar.gz
Did you make any changes since the last pretest?
Trying to build this on MS-Windows with MinGW, Perl crashes when
generating texinfo.info:
if TEXINFO_DEV_SOURCE=1 ; export TEXINFO_DEV_SOURCE ; top_srcdir=".." ;
export top_srcdir ; top_builddir=".." ; export top_builddir ;
/d/usr/Perl/bin/perl ../tp/texi2any -I . \
-o texinfo.info `test -f 'texinfo.texi' || echo './'`texinfo.texi; \
then \
rc=0; \
else \
rc=$?; \
$restore $backupdir/* `echo "./texinfo.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
fi; \
rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
Free to wrong pool 3f5d48 not 40f015b at ..\tp/Texinfo/XSLoader.pm line 224,
<$fh> line 8.
Makefile:1258: recipe for target `texinfo.info' failed
make[3]: *** [texinfo.info] Error 5
make[3]: Leaving directory `/d/gnu/texinfo-6.7/doc'
Makefile:1461: recipe for target `all-recursive' failed
>From searching the Internet, it sounds like the "Free to wrong pool"
error message is related to multithreading in Perl and/or fork()?
This is a different system from the one where I built the pretest.
Here I have Perl v5.20.1, provided by ActiveState. Could this be
related to this particular version of Perl? Though I never had any
problems with this Perl version with previous Texinfo releases.
TIA
