Need a Windows binary of the latest makeinfo for a test

[Mark Messer]

At the GNU Octave project, there is an intermittent bug that only affects Windows installations. help foo is supposed to display infomartion about the foo command. It does, but the text is garbled on some computers. See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35187

 

The bug is occurring on my computer. I have traced it to makeinfo.exe. There is a problem with word wrapping.

 

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.

I am assuming a new makeinfo.exe would be able to use dlls without installation problems. makeinfo.exe depends on msys-intl-8-8.dll, msys-iconv-2.dll, msys-1.0.dll, kernell32.dll, and ntdll.dll.  

 

Otherwise, I will follow the directions in the djcpp README. If I need to do this, it would help if you could tell me the command to download a reasonably stable version of the sources from CVS.

 

Thanks,

Mark