Re: automake + .info files help needed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bruce,

* Bruce Korb wrote on Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 05:16:06PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> Please just post all of the output, it is often much easier for me to
>> see then what went wrong.

> Okay, here's my (I'd guess different) problem.  Beats me.  :(

Yes, that's most definitely a different problem.

> Making dvi in doc
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.9.6pre14/_build/doc'
> TEXINPUTS="../../config:$TEXINPUTS" \
>       MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.9.6pre14/config/missing 
> --run makeinfo  -I../../autoopts -I../autoopts -I ../../doc' \
>       texi2dvi ../../doc/autogen.texi
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: Running etex --file-line-error './../../doc/autogen.texi' 
> ...


> [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95]
> ./../../doc/autogen.texi:8236: Missing number, treated as zero.
> <to be read again> 
>                    }
> @tclose ...n @rawbackslash @plainfrenchspacing #1}
>                                                   @null 
> @samp #1->address@hidden {#1}
>                        '@null 
> @item ...nt @hbox to address@hidden @itemcontents @kern 
>                                                   @itemmargin address@hidden 
> address@hidden
> l.8236 @item
>              @code{[HH:[MM:]]SS}
> ? 

Find out what's in line 8236 of autogen.texi.  Likely problems:
- texinfo syntax error
- constructs only understood by a newer makeinfo
- bug in texinfo.tex (in that case try a slightly newer/older one)

If that doesn't help, it usually helps to ask on the help-texinfo
mailing list.  In that case, provide them with the makeinfo version,
texinfo.tex version, and ideally a small example to reproduce the issue.

Oh, and when you happen to be bored, you could eliminate some of those
under/overfull boxes ...

Cheers,
Ralf