Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:01:43AM +, Karl Berry wrote: Probably because you saw only GNU/Linux systems. As I understand it, mingw is supposed to be providing a reasonable GNU/Unix-ish environment. I understood that too, and it is certainly the impression that the Mi

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:01:43 GMT > From: k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) > > Probably because you saw only GNU/Linux systems. > > Not so. I looked and tried on many systems. > BSD, Solaris, ... > > As I understand it, mingw is supposed to be providing a reasonable > GNU/Unix-ish envi

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread Karl Berry
Probably because you saw only GNU/Linux systems. Not so. I looked and tried on many systems. BSD, Solaris, ... As I understand it, mingw is supposed to be providing a reasonable GNU/Unix-ish environment. These days (years), mktemp should surely be part of that. Any shell script that wants

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread Karl Berry
LC_ALL (like the name suggests) should override all others. Well, for the record, that is so only in the one case at hand -- when LC_ALL (or LANG) is set to "C" (or "POSIX", I would hope, though that's not mentioned in the gettext manual). Otherwise, LANGUAGE is higher priority than LC_ALL.

Re: concerning texinfo 4.13.90

2012-11-19 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 19 Nov 2012, Patrice Dumas wrote: > So, if you a distro maintainer, and you don't want those installed, > I think best would be passing the configure options and also removing > the whole $pkgdatadir/lib directory from the staged install. THis is what I am doing right now ;-) Best wishes

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:07:50PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > > I have never seen any other program do that. LC_ALL (like the name suggests) > should > override all others. > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Locale-Environment-Variables.html > > T

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:01:19PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:47:41PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > I cannot reproduce that. Could you please paste the 'locale' command > result? > > > LANG=de_DE.utf8 > LANGUAGE=de_

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:01:19PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > Since in my case I have LANGUAGE unset, my guess is that it comes from > there. This is determined by the gettext implementation we use, which > is libintl-perl. But, it seems that this follows GNU gettext behavior, > so all the

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:47:41PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > I cannot reproduce that. Could you please paste the 'locale' command > result? > > > LANG=de_DE.utf8 > LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8:de_DE:de_AT:de_CH:en_GB:en_AU:en_US > LC_CTYPE="C" > LC_NUMERIC="C" > LC_TIME="C" > LC_COLL

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:44:58PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:34:41PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:26:38PM +, Karl Berry wrote: > Finally, the first pretest for the next Texinfo release is available: >

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:34:41PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:26:38PM +, Karl Berry wrote: > Finally, the first pretest for the next Texinfo release is available: > >ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.90.tar.xz > http://alpha.gn

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread Dumas Patrice
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:13:34PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > As far as I have understood TeX will always accept this kind of > > construct and cannot be made to error on it, but the idea was to > > forbid it in makeinfo/texi2any. > > Why? What's the benefit? That allows to find those k

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> As far as I have understood TeX will always accept this kind of > construct and cannot be made to error on it, but the idea was to > forbid it in makeinfo/texi2any. Why? What's the benefit? Werner

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:56:38PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > > It seems that this version, unlike previous versions does not like spaces > between the command name and the opening brace eg "@footnote {this is a > footnote}". > > The manual doesn't make this explicit. My understanding is t

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:26:38PM +, Karl Berry wrote: Finally, the first pretest for the next Texinfo release is available: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.90.tar.xz http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.90.tar.xz Please send any feedbac

Re: texinfo-4.13.90 pretest available

2012-11-19 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:26:38PM +, Karl Berry wrote: Finally, the first pretest for the next Texinfo release is available: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.90.tar.xz http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-4.13.90.tar.xz Please send any feedbac

Re: concerning texinfo 4.13.90

2012-11-19 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:17:28AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Karl, hi all, > > it seems that building wiht > --with-external-Text-Unidecode=yes --with-external-libintl-perl=yes > does not really have an effect, at least the files are still installed > into share/texinfo/lib/

Re: Buffer overflow in makeinfo/sectioning.c

2012-11-19 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Hi, > in the function current_chapter_number() there is a buffer overflow > which is fixed by this patch: Thanks. Actually, it was fixed in the repository 4 years ago[1], but became irrelevant by now, because makeinfo itself has been rewritten in Perl. Regards, Sergey [1] http://cvs.savannah.

Buffer overflow in makeinfo/sectioning.c

2012-11-19 Thread Dr. Werner Fink
Hi, in the function current_chapter_number() there is a buffer overflow which is fixed by this patch: --* snip *- --- makeinfo/sectioning.c +++ makeinfo/sectioning.c 2012-11-19 14:10:54.639587164 + @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ current_chapt