Re: bogus "Negative repeat count does nothing" warnings on Autoconf manual
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches,gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs |
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| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Thanks for the diagnosis. I installed the attached workaround into Autoconf to work around the problem, as unfixed Texinfo versions will be around for a while.
0001-doc-resplit-lines-to-avoid-Texinfo-chaos.patch
(application/x-patch, 1.3 KB)
From d3a4cccfe8807c7354ef6edd2913362d34d8e574 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:14:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: resplit lines to avoid Texinfo chaos * doc/autoconf.texi (Introduction): Resplit lines to avoid Texinfo 6.3 incompatibility with Perl 5.22. See: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2016-09/msg00037.html --- doc/autoconf.texi | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index d3ccf19..9ad7dc1 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -693,8 +693,8 @@ nature of God. ``Surely a Physicist,'' said the physicist, ``because early in the Creation, God made Light; and you know, Maxwell's equations, the dual nature of electromagnetic waves, the relativistic consequences@enddots{}'' ``An Engineer!,'' said the engineer, ``because -before making Light, God split the Chaos into Land and Water; it takes a -hell of an engineer to handle that big amount of mud, and orderly +before making Light, God split the Chaos into Land and Water; it takes +a hell of an engineer to handle that big amount of mud, and orderly separation of solids from liquids@enddots{}'' The computer scientist shouted: ``And the Chaos, where do you think it was coming from, hmm?'' -- 2.7.4