Issue 769861: "make info" croaks (original) (raw)

Issue769861

Created on 2003-07-11 20:50 by skip.montanaro, last changed 2022-04-10 16:09 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg17037 - (view)	Author: Skip Montanaro (skip.montanaro) *	Date: 2003-07-11 20:50
I noticed this problem mentioned on the fink list. In the Docs/info directory, executing "make" leads to an Emacs error: % pwd /Users/skip/src/python/head/dist/src/Doc/info % make Using emacs to build the info docs EMACS=emacs ../tools/mkinfo ../lib/lib.tex python-lib.texi python-lib.info emacs -batch -q --no-site-file -l /Users/skip/src/python/ head/dist/src/Doc/tools/py2texi.el --eval (setq py2texi-dirs '("./" "../texinputs/" "/Users/skip/src/python/head/dist/src/ Doc/lib")) --eval (setq py2texi-texi-file-name "python- lib.texi") --eval (setq py2texi-info-file-name "python- lib.info") --eval (py2texi "/Users/skip/src/python/head/dist/ src/Doc/lib/lib.tex") -f kill-emacs Mark set Args out of range: 405571, 405573 make: *** [python-lib.info] Error 255 The regular expression used to match Latex commands will skip over an optional argument, but that argument can't contain a right square bracket. This is okay: \versionchanged[foo bar baz]{2.3} but this is not \versionchanged[foo [bar] baz]{2.3} The \versionchanged macro at the end of libre.tex violates this property. I'm not sure what to do about it since regular expressions can't count nesting depth. A quick hack appears to be to change the search pattern in py2texi-process-commands to "\\\\\\([a-zA-Z*]+\\)\\(\\[[^}]*\\]\\)?" but I'm not sure what other side-effects that might have on the info file generation.
msg17038 - (view)	Author: Fred Drake (fdrake)	Date: 2003-07-16 16:27
Logged In: YES user_id=3066 This particular bug has been fixed in Doc/lib/libre.tex revision 1.101. Other issues remain in the GNU info conversion; still working on those.