bug#9050: coreutils-8.12 problem with creating coreutils.info

[Joachim Schmitz]

Hi folks

 

Seems I can't get the coreutils.info to build:

 

Making all in doc

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/Floss/coreutils-8.12/doc'

  MAKEINFO coreutils.info

coreutils.texi:1032: Unknown command
`/www.validlab.com/@/goldberg/@/paper.pdf)'.

makeinfo: Removing output file `coreutils.info' due to errors; use --force
to preserve.

make[2]: *** [coreutils.info] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/Floss/coreutils-8.12/doc'

 

 

Could this due to makeinfo being too old?

 

$ makeinfo --version

makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.2

 

Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software

under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.

$

 

The following patch seems to fix this

 

/usr/local/bin/diff -EBbu ./doc/coreutils.texi.orig ./doc/coreutils.texi

--- ./doc/coreutils.texi.orig   2011-04-25 03:55:27.000000000 -0500

+++ ./doc/coreutils.texi        2011-07-11 07:34:29.000000000 -0500

@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@

negative zero, and uses special values called NaNs to represent

invalid computations such as dividing zero by itself.  For more

information, please see David Goldberg's paper

address@hidden://@/www.validlab.com/@/goldberg/@/paper.pdf, What Every

address@hidden://www.validlab.com/goldberg/paper.pdf, What Every

Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic}.

 

@vindex LC_NUMERIC

 

Bye, Jojo