[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Mike,

On Wed, 08 Jul 2015, Mike Miller wrote:
> Much thanks Norbert for investigating and finding the necessary changes.
> I've confirmed that these changes are necessary for building upstream
> source also. I'll take care of making sure these are addressed upstream.

Thanks, that is good to hear. Reading through the texinfo mailing
lists I see that there was a bit heavy decision concerning this
change.

> JFTR, Octave ships texmf.cnf because some older supported distros still
> have ‘save_size = 5000’ which has caused errors for some users.

It might be better to use
	kpsewhich -var-value save-size
and check what it is. But anyway, if 10000 suffices that is good enough.

> Also attached is a patch appropriate for 3.8.2 to fix the same class of

Great, does that mean I don't need to investigate 3.8.2 build fixes
anymore? I am on a conference and low on time, so I couldn't
do more testing and fixing for the 3.8.2 version.

All the best, and thanks for your work

Norbert

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