[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #35187] the "help" command displays truncated help (words missing, etc)

[Nitzan Arazi]

Follow-up Comment #26, bug #35187 (project octave):

It seems that makeinfo.exe by itself is not suffucient. It depends uppon at
least 3 dlls.

Both Tatsuros and ezwinports depend on:
libintl-8.dll
libiconv-2.dll
libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
which are usually found in mingw32/bin (and copied to octave/bin) and the
reason Mark test has failed with Tatsuros version is probably because Tatsuros
has been compiled and linked with newer mingw32 and gcc-4.6.2 while Mark has
tested it with Ocatve-3.4.3 with the older mingw32 dlls.
I don't know and have not tested yet the ezwinports version.

The msys version depends on:
msys-iconv-2.dll
msys-intl-8.dll
msys-1.0.dll
which are all part of msys/bin

Another strange observation:

I have noticed that I do get the garbled 'help inv' with Octave3.4.3_gcc4.5.2
but I don't get it with recent Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_20120224 - both using the
same msys based makeinfo.exe and dlls !

Has anyone tested this issue with latest Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_20120224 ? 

Nitzan

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