Re: cruft at the end of bzip2 docstring

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/15/2016 01:38 PM, Rik wrote:
> jwe,
>
> If you try 'help bzip2' you'll see a bunch of cruft at the end of the
> docstring which is the standard GPL file preamble.  The issue is in
> libinterp/module.mk:
>
> module.mk:      ( $(PERL) $(srcdir)/libinterp/gendoc.pl "$(srcdir)"
> $(LIBINTERP_DEFUN_FILES); cat $(srcdir)/libinterp/op-kw-docs ) >
> libinterp/DOCSTRINGS-t && \
>
> Using 'cat' adds the entire file to DOCSTRINGS including the GPL preamble.
>
> There is a note in op-kw-docs:
>
> ## FIXME: the information in this file is currently duplicated in help.cc.
>
> Maybe an entirely different solution is desired given the FIXME note.  At
> any rate, I thought I'd let you two know since you were working on this.

I pushed the following change:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/c0cdf1c92086

Thanks,

jwe