Old patches from Red Hat (continued)

[Quentin Spencer]

I wrote:

> Since octave is being removed from Fedora for the upcoming release, 
> I'm working on importing it into Fedora Extras. They are currently 
> packaging 2.1.57 with some old patches, and I thought I should at 
> least look at the patches before I update it to a more recent version 
> and dump the patches. One originated at 2.1.57 and is related to some 
> signbit problems that I remember being reported on the list. The 
> second patch seems unnecessary--it was originally written before the 
> RH maintainers figured out that octave depended on texinfo. I'm 
> attaching the patches. Has the signbit problem been resolved? If we 
> assume that texinfo is installed, is the help patch useful in any way?
>
> thanks,
> Quentin
One thing I forgot to mention about the help patch was the following 
comment from the build script that may shed some light on why it's there:

* Wed Jul 30 2003 Lon Hohberger <address@hidden> 2.1.50-3
- Fix for Bugzilla #101299, round 2.  Include a patch to
quell sterr from info; it gives us funny messages if $HOME/.info
does not exist.