Re: Need a Windows binary of the latest makeinfo for a test

[Patrice Dumas]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 02:56:26PM -0800, Mark Messer wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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.

makeinfo in C is being replaced by a perl implementation, in tp/texi2any(.pl).
You can use the texinfo CVS, it should work as usual.  The latest CVS should
be stable these days.

Getting CVS is explained on
http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=texinfo

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/texinfo co texinfo

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Pat