The problem was traced to the most recent release of makeinfo.exe, which is 4.13 from 2008. The most recent snapshot of makeinfo.exe fixes the problem.
The Octave project would like to include that latest snapshot of makeinfo.exe in their next release.
makeinfo --version reports 4.13 for both the 2008 released version and the snapshot. It would be nice to have a snapshot with a different version. Is this possible?
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From:
Mark Messer <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: Need a Windows binary of the latest makeinfo for a test
To: Eli Zaretskii <
address@hidden>
I dropped in the latest makeinfo.exe. It fixed the problem.
Thank you. I appreciate the help.
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 14:56:26 -0800
> From: Mark Messer <address@hidden>
>
> Octave uses the latest release of makeinfo, which is 4.13 from 2008. I see
> the source code has been changed since then. For a test, I would like to
> replace makeinfo.exe with a copy from a more recent build.
>
> Most convenient for me would be to download a pre-built Windows binary, and
> copy makeinfo.exe over my existing makeinfo.exe. Is there such a binary? I
> am running 32 bit Vista.
Try the one here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/texinfo-4.13a-w32-bin.zip/download