Re: makeinfo -> info and non-ascii file-system paths

[Patrice Dumas]

Hello,

This issue was already reported quite recently, leading to many
fixes, tests and discussions in the development version.  So this
should be fixed in the development version.

On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 10:03:12AM +0300, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote:
> Dear Texinfo maintainers,
> 
> There appears to be an issue with makeinfo on file-systems with
> non-ascii filesystems:
> 
> Excusez my French, but:
> ,----
> | FAILED: mu4e/mu4e.info 
> | /usr/bin/makeinfo -o \
> |  '/home/phenix/Téléchargements/mu-1.8.3/build/mu4e/mu4e.info' \
> | '/home/phenix/Téléchargements/mu-1.8.3/mu4e/mu4e.texi' \
> | -I '/home/phenix/Téléchargements/mu-1.8.3/build/mu4e/..'
> | /home/phenix/Téléchargements/mu-1.8.3/mu4e/mu4e.texi:4568: @include: could 
> not find fdl.texi
> | ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> | make: *** [Makefile:42 : all] Erreur 1
> `----[https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2288
>       (and similar: 
> https://github.com/riscv-collab/riscv-gnu-toolchain/issues/673)]
> 
> i.e. the 'Téléchargements' seems to be problematic; building from a
> directory without such characters works.
> 
> It tried to reproduce, I get to:
> ,----
> |    /usr/bin/makeinfo -o
> |    '/tmp/Motörhead/mu-1.8.0/build/guile/mu-guile.info' \
> |       '/tmp/Motörhead/mu-1.8.0/guile/mu-guile.texi'    \
> |       -I '/tmp/Motörhead/mu-1.8.0/build/guile/..'
> | mu-guile.texi:994: @include: could not find fdl.texi
> `----
> 
> Looking at the -I line, there's a 'version.texi' in
> /tmp/Motörhead/mu-1.8.0/build/. That seems to be to problematic part.
> 
> If I rename the folder, it works:
> ,----
> | mv /tmp/Motörhead tmp/Nickelback
> | /usr/bin/makeinfo -o \
> |   '/tmp/Nickelback/mu-1.8.0/build/guile/mu-guile.info' \
> |   '/tmp/Nickelback/mu-1.8.0/guile/mu-guile.texi' \
> |  -I '/tmp/Nickelback/mu-1.8.0/build/guile/..'
> `----
> 
> I suspect the problem may be somewhere in the perl Texinfo machinery.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Dirk.
> 
> -- 
> Dirk-Jan C. Binnema                  Helsinki, Finland
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