Re: Texinfo patches

[Robinson, Melvin D]

From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <address@hidden>
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013 10:09 PM
To: Melvin Robinson <address@hidden>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Texinfo patches

You should leave a feedback to this bug about it.

What fixed this problem for me was removal of ~/.texlive* directories.
Some other people reported that they fixed it by installing some missing
dependencies (that, allegedly, was fixed in the updates).

Make sure you have
texlive-latex-fonts
texlive-epsf

rpms installed.

I also seems to remember that you have mixed some latex packages

from rpm and directly from texlive repos; that might be a problem as well.

Dmitri.
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On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Robinson, Melvin D <address@hidden> wrote:

I believe I have a later version installed, but still with the same error as in the report

address@hidden ~]$ yum list texlive-2012

Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit

Installed Packages

texlive.x86_64                     2:2012-20.20130321_r29448.fc18                     @updates

From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <address@hidden>

Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:53 PM

To: Melvin Robinson <address@hidden>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Texinfo patches

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=879661

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <address@hidden> wrote:

Yes it is. The error messages you see compiling octave docs are not from

the texinfo, but from the makefile that could not find dvi file...

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Robinson, Melvin D <address@hidden> wrote:

No, this did not produce a dvi.  Could that be the problem?

From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <address@hidden>

Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:43 PM

To: Melvin Robinson <address@hidden>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>

Subject: Re: Texinfo patches

Did it produce the dvi file that you can look at?

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Robinson, Melvin D <address@hidden> wrote:

Yes, this did compile.  Well, there were no error messages that resulted.

From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <address@hidden>
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013 9:36 PM
To: Melvin Robinson <address@hidden>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: FW: Texinfo patches

Can you compile the attached file?

(texi2dvi test.texi)


\input texinfo
  @node Top
  Hello walls.
  @bye

Dmitri.

OK, I've had more success.  I blew away the Texlive installation and reinstalled on Fedora 18.  It gets much farther, but now I'm getting the error

address@hidden interpreter]$ dvips  -o octave.ps octave.dvi

This is dvips(k) 5.992 Copyright 2012 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)

' TeX output 2013.04.14:2241' -> octave.ps

dvips: ! Couldn't find header file: groff.enc

There was a very similar bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=951709, but it was closed as not a bug.