[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62648] build problem with texinfo>6.8

[Arun Giridhar]

Follow-up Comment #37, bug #62648 (project octave):

The following fix works for me. Please review and test.

diff -r 0924234dd747 scripts/help/__unimplemented__.m
--- a/scripts/help/__unimplemented__.m  Tue Nov 15 18:37:58 2022 -0800
+++ b/scripts/help/__unimplemented__.m  Wed Nov 16 08:41:38 2022 -0500
@@ -1340,8 +1340,8 @@ endfunction
 
 %!test
 %! str = __unimplemented__ ("matlabrc");
-%! assert (str(1:71), "matlabrc is not implemented.  Octave uses the file
'.octaverc' instead.");
+%! regexp (str(1:71), "matlabrc is not implemented.  Octave uses the file
.\.octaverc. instead\.");
 
 %!test
 %! str = __unimplemented__ ("MException");
-%! assert (str(1:58), "The 'MException' function is not yet implemented in
Octave");
+%! regexp (str(1:58), "The .MException. function is not yet implemented in
Octave");


I made it against stable because that way it can go to Octave 8.1 instead of
only Octave 9.

I couldn't understand the Github Actions log -- it looks like all the recent
MacOS builds are failing in the installation of dependencies and are not
proceeding to building Octave itself. Is that right?


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