Re: [bug #38795] texi2any makes CR in output when input is mixed CR-LF and LF files

[Vincent Belaïche]

Karl Berry a écrit :
> Vincent - I understand about the problem of files in combination, but
> ... like I said, please send me test files (and cmdline invocation) that
> demonstrate the problem with the current code.  Everything I tried
> works.  It doesn't make sense for me to spend more time guessing at the
> problematic case.
>
> Thanks,
> k
>
>   
Hello Karl,

The problematic case is the bbdb.tgz file archive that was attached to 
the bug report. I unzipped this to some directory, and then I launched 
the command

makeinfo bbdb.texi

makeinfo on my machine calls some wrapper, the code source is there:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=28892

and the wrapper has been compiled with g++ of mingw

when I open a shell console under emacs, and I launch the command line, 
then I get that sort of output:

----
Microsoft Windows XP [version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

c:\Documents and Settings\Vincent\Local Settings\Temp\bug_38795>makeinfo 
bbdb.texi
makeinfo bbdb.texi
Locales dir for document strings not found
makeinfo-dos.cpp cmdline=c:\msys\1.0\lib\activePerl\bin\perl.exe 
c:\Programme\GNU\installation\texinfo-install\trunk.old\tp\texi2any.pl 
"bbdb.texi"

c:\Documents and Settings\Vincent\Local Settings\Temp\bug_38795>
----

and the resulting info file is that one:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=28893

Now, if under EMACS I edit bbdb.texi and I lauch Makeinfo from AUCTeX, 
then I get that sort of output in the compilation buffer:

--------
-*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "c:/Documents and 
Settings/Vincent/Local Settings/Temp/bug_38795/" -*-
Compilation started at Wed Aug 21 07:58:30

makeinfo "bbdb.texi"
Locales dir for document strings not found
makeinfo-dos.cpp cmdline=c:\msys\1.0\lib\activePerl\bin\perl.exe 
c:\Programme\GNU\installation\texinfo-install\trunk.old\tp\texi2any.pl 
"bbdb.texi"

Compilation finished at Wed Aug 21 07:58:34
--------

and the resulting file is that one:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=28894

Now, there is something which I had not noticed in the first place: the 
info files are not the same in terms of amount of CR. It seems that the 
problem is quite funnier than I had initially thought :-/, I can't 
figure out what is happening ...

I have to go to work now, I will post more information later on (like 
what texi2any I am using, what activeperl version, and also info files 
resulting from launching the wrapper from other environments, or from 
doing by hand the command line that the wrapper is doing).

Anyway, please note that I am not in trouble with this problem, the 
files on all the projects which I am working about are consistently 
encoded, my point was rather to contribute to texinfo project by 
reporting the strange behaviour.

VBR,
  Vincent.