[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41364] __makeinfo__ fails with texinfo 5.2

[Arno Onken]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41364>

                 Summary: __makeinfo__ fails with texinfo 5.2
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: asnelt
            Submitted on: Mon 27 Jan 2014 15:09:51 CET
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.0
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

With texinfo 5.2 the built-in function __makeinfo__ returns an empty text when
requesting html output. This is important for the octave-forge package
generate_html which will generate documentation without function help text.

Example:

[r1, r2] = __makeinfo__ (get_help_text ('max'), 'html')


will return

r1=
r2=0


This is because by default makeinfo now writes the output to the input file.
Adding "--output=-" to the makeinfo arguments fixes this, because makeinfo
will then write to stdout.




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