[Fwd: Re: Problem with M4 manual]

[Derek Chen-Becker]

Hi,
    I've been working with Gary to fix the m4 manual on gnu.org and 
he's run into a problem with gendocs.sh. Apparently, there is an "index" 
keyword in the m4 macros and when gendocs creates that node it 
overwrites the real index. I think Gary was going to try to do some 
creative renaming, but is there a more general solution to this (like 
prepending generated keyword docs, etc)?

Thanks,

Derek

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Subject: Re: {SPAM 03.0} Problem with M4 manual
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:04:03 +0100
From: Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden>
To: Derek Chen-Becker <address@hidden>
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Derek Chen-Becker wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
> > I had a brainwave, and pulled the latest maintain.texi from fencepost,
> > which has a reference to gendocs.sh.  I pulled the script and template
> > from CVS, and just committed a fresh set of M4 docs from the 1.4 branch.
> > Everything should work fine as soon as cron synchs the live pages with
> > CVS.
> >
> > Thanks for the prod ;-)
> >
> >     Gary.
>
>
> I just checked today and the link problem is still there. Could this be 
> a problem with the manual or translation scripts? Is it correct in the 
> version that you generated locally?

Thanks.  I naively assumed the scripts would to the right thing.
Ultimately, I think the script does the wrong thing since it overwrites
it's own index with the node describing the M4 Index macro.  I'll see
if I can work around it with some creative renaming and reupload.

Thanks for catching that.  Can you also inform the maintainer of the
gendocs scripts of the error please?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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