Re: makinfo (v 6.4): failure to support formats textcontent, rawtext, plaintexinfo

[Randall Sawyer]

On 07/31/2017 05:25 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this; I've committed both of these changes under
> your name.
>
> rawtext still doesn't work. Sample output:
>
> $ ./texi2any.pl -c TEXINFO_OUTPUT_FORMAT=rawtext ../doc/info-stnd.texi
> Can't locate object method "gdt" via package "Texinfo::Convert::Text" at
> ../tp/Texinfo/Common.pm line 1254.
>
> I haven't looked into why.
I just looked. I ran:

>grep -rl -e '\bgdt\b'  /usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/

And I looked in Texinfo::Convert::Converter and derived modules.

'gdt' is defined in Texinfo::Report - and - 
@Texinfo::Convert::Converter::ISA = qw(Exporter Texinfo::Report);

Package Texinfo::Convert::Text (file Text.pm) contains this line:

@ISA = qw(Exporter);

which should be

@ISA = qw(Exporter Texinfo::Convert::Converter);

All of the other derived converter modules look complete.

[I know it's not good form, but have made the changes to my installed 
files running emacs as root. and I WILL clone my own texinfo source 
using git. Thank you for bearing with this method of bug-reporting for 
the time being.]