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

[Mark Messer]

Follow-up Comment #27, bug #35187 (project octave):

I wrote to Eli Zaretskii. He reports 

- The file (texinfo-4.13a-w32-bin.zip) I downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/texinfo-4.13a-w32-bin.zip/download
and tested successfully on my computer contains makeinfo.exe 4.13a. 

- No source code differences exist between versions 4.13 and 4.13a for
makeinfo.exe. (There are differences for other files in the texinfo project.)


- It matters how makeinfo.exe is built. For example, linking against faulty
dll's can cause failure. 

- The file I downloaded was built and carefully tested by Eli. Other versions
most likely saw much less testing. 

- Development has stopped on the C version of makeinfo (which we use), but is
continuing in Perl. 

makeinfo.exe can also be found at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/. Both
texinfo-4.13 and texinfo-4.13a contain it. The source code for both is from
2008. I have not tested these files on my computer. 

Octave should use the version of makeinfo.exe built by Eli. I have zipped this
file and attached it as makeinfo-4.13a-w32-bin-ezwinports.7z. 


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