Re: texinfo 4.11.90 pretest

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Karl Berry wrote:

> I uploaded a texinfo pretest release at
> http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.11.90.tar.gz.  Please try it
> if you can.

Hi Karl,

just fetched this and did
        ../SRCDIR/configure --disable-nls
        make
        make check
        make DESTRIR=somewhere install

At first two of the tests (ii-0041-test, ii-0050-test) went into an endless
loop, caused by the buggy zdiff from gzip-1.3.9. After upgrading to
gzip-1.3.12 everything was fine.

However, there were two gcc warnings (`discards qualifier'). I think they
prevent texinfo from being built with a C++ compiler.

Anyway, attached is a patch cleaning some of that `const' mess, and at the
same time removing quite a lot of `(char *)' casts.

Another patch adds a space in install-info's usage message, such that
help2man handles this correctly.
Maybe you prefer to move everything one column to the right?

I'll have a look at texi2dvi's usage message and see what can be done there.
Thus another patch might follow.

regards         Peter

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