RE: Patch to allow texi2any for EMACS manual compilation

[Vincent Belaïche]

Ooops... please ignore the first statement about [...] encapsulation in
my previous email, I had missed Glenn's answer that these are simply M4
quotes --- the full story is that in order not to run the full configure
which is really lengthy I did some trials with a simple cut & paste
without paying attention to dequoting.

So in a nutshell, I meant that I do not think that this is a bug in
Texinfo, because texi2any and makeinfo are two different programs.

   Vincent.

PS: patch update.

=== modified file 'configure.ac'
--- configure.ac        2014-09-15 00:20:21 +0000
+++ configure.ac        2014-09-25 04:41:34 +0000
@@ -1103,10 +1103,11 @@
     MAKEINFO=makeinfo
   fi
   case `($MAKEINFO --version) 2>/dev/null` in
-    'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '4.[[7-9]]* | \
-    'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '4.[[1-9][0-9]]* | \
-    'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '[[5-9]]* | \
-    'makeinfo (GNU texinfo) '[[1-9][0-9]]* ) ;;
+  # ???????? matches both makeinfo & texi2any
+    ????????' (GNU texinfo) '4.[[7-9]]* | \
+    ????????' (GNU texinfo) '4.[[1-9][0-9]]* | \
+    ????????' (GNU texinfo) '[[5-9]]* | \
+    ????????' (GNU texinfo) '[[1-9][0-9]]* ) ;;
     *) MAKEINFO=no;;
   esac
 fi


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> CC: address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Patch to allow texi2any for EMACS manual compilation
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:33:34 +0200
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> > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:05:54 -0700
> > From: address@hidden
> > To: address@hidden; address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Patch to allow texi2any for EMACS manual compilation
> > CC: address@hidden; address@hidden
> >
> > Glenn Morris wrote:
> >> Please take a step back and tell us clearly what problem you think you
> >> are trying to solve.
> >
> Sorry, I have been creating some confusion, because when trying to solve my 
> initial problem (that is configure not accepting that texi2any is used for 
> compiling the documentation) I have come across another one, i.e., that the 
> [...] encapsulation of interval wildcard (e.g. `[7-9]') does not work for me, 
> and I am not even sure that it should work at all because I did not find its 
> documentation in bash manual --- but I suspect that I am just missing the 
> point. Maybe I should open a separate thread for that one ?
>
> > I think he's saying the behavior of Texinfo 5's 'makeinfo --help'
> > depends on the name used to invoke makeinfo (which is not following the
> > GNU Coding Standards, by the way -- Karl, should I file a Texinfo bug
> > report or will this email suffice?), and this means Emacs's 'configure'
> > script shouldn't care what that part of the output looks like. I
> > installed a patch along those lines as Emacs trunk bzr 117943.
> >
>
> I think this is not a bug in Texinfo. texi2any and makeinfo are two different 
> programs, but texi2any can do whatever makeinfo can, and much more. texi2any 
> is thought as a replacement of makeinfo, that is why the version number has 
> some continuity.
> Vincent.