Re: CVS Texinfo fails to build the Autoconf manual (from git)

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 07/18/2012 09:46 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/18/2012 01:21 PM, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:46:58AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>
>>> tool and therefore which semantics will be encountered).  My preference
>>> would be for preserving the existing semantics, so that the autoconf
>>> manual does not have to change what it already has in place.
>>
>> Here is a patch for the autoconf manual which removes the @c in macro
>> definitions and avoid having @ followed by a newline split macro
>> invocation line.  The second part leads to a better TeX output as @samp
>> are not split by an end of line anymore which was the case before in my
>> testings.
> 
> Wow - we independently came up with the same patch.  I'm applying this
> under your name; it's small enough that you don't need copyright
> assignment.  Thanks again for helping analyze this.
> 
And I can confirm the manual builds correctly now.

Thanks to everybody,
  Stefano