Re: difficulties building from svn, missing help2man, segfault

2014-05-08 Thread Benno Schulenberg
On Thu, May 8, 2014, at 0:40, Gavin Smith wrote: Doing a duplicate typedef declaration in the way I did seems not to be standard, so I have changed this. Okay, the build on Lucid now gets further along, but... then fails on xgettext segfaulting. Pfff! $ xgettext --version | head -1 xgettext

Re: difficulties building from svn, missing help2man, segfault

2014-05-08 Thread Karl Berry
Shouldn't ./configure check for its presence if it's going to be used? It is not needed by users installing from a release. It is only needed by people installing from the development sources, who, yes, are expected to have the current versions of GNU tools installed (./README-hacking).

Re: difficulties building from svn, missing help2man, segfault

2014-05-07 Thread Karl Berry
wanting to see how things stand with the h-H issue We hadn't changed it yet. It was on the list. Since you bring it up again, I just changed it. As we previously discussed: h = tutorial (like Emacs Info) H = terse cmd list In vi mode, to date both h and H have always done the terse

Re: difficulties building from svn, missing help2man, segfault

2014-05-07 Thread Karl Berry
By the way, in the fragment Â«with the Front-Cover texts Ah, that lowercase t should be a capital T Texts. I fixed it in info-stnd.texi. info.texi has to be fixed in Emacs, if not already done. maybe s/texts/text/ and s/Texts/text/, No, *-Cover Texts is a techno-legal term from the

Re: difficulties building from svn, missing help2man, segfault

2014-05-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Benno Schulenberg bensb...@justemail.net wrote: Hi, Trying to build texinfo from SVN (wanting to see how things stand with the h-H issue), I run into some difficulties. Hi, you seem to have a few issues. I will comment on the info browser issues because I've

Re: difficulties building from svn, missing help2man, segfault

2014-05-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Gavin Smith gavinsmith0...@gmail.com wrote: $ info/ginfo doc/info.info Welcome to Info version 5.2. Type h for help, m for menu item.Segmentation fault Wow. The doc/info.info seems to be fine, though, I can read it okay with the system's own info command.