Re: [help-texinfo] Octave fails to build with texinfo.tex changes to @sortas

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 14:27:39 -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> Octave does indeed use the @sortas macro, but it's not clear to me at
> the moment if one of those is the source of the error. I've attached a
> list of all direct uses of @sortas in Octave for convenience. There are
> many more index entries that don't explicitly use @sortas.

I've found the problem through trial and error elimination of index
entries. The root cause is the following index entry

    @opindex . @ @ @ 

This is apparently trying to create an index entry ".   ", with trailing
spaces for some reason. This is hard to read and maintain anyway, so I
will work within Octave to come up with a better index entry.

Cheers,

-- 
mike