Re: texi2dvi failure for tramp-2.1.18

[Michael Albinus]

Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,

Hi,

> building tramp-2.1.18 fails for me in "texi2dvi tramp.texi", log is
> included at the end of this message. This happens with TeXLive 2009.
>
> The failure is triggered by line 3342 of tramp.texi:
>
>    emacsclient @trampfn{ssh, `whoami`, `hostname --fqdn`, $1}
>
> If I remove the backquotes from that line then texi2dvi completes
> without error.

Unfortunately, the backquotes are needed. I do not know how to encode
them in texinfo; so I have changed them to the $() syntax:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
*** /home/albinus/src/tramp/texi/tramp.texi.~2.248.~ 2010-01-17
    13:04:05.000000000 +0100
--- /home/albinus/src/tramp/texi/tramp.texi     2010-03-15
    09:22:49.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 3339,3345 ****
  
  @example
  #!/bin/sh
! emacsclient @trampfn{ssh, `whoami`, `hostname --fqdn`, $1}
  @end example
  
  Then you must set the environment variable @code{EDITOR} pointing to
--- 3339,3345 ----
  
  @example
  #!/bin/sh
! emacsclient @trampfn{ssh, $(whoami), $(hostname --fqdn), $1}
  @end example
  
  Then you must set the environment variable @code{EDITOR} pointing to
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> Ulrich

Thanks for the report, and best regards, Michael.