bogus "Negative repeat count does nothing" warnings on Autoconf manual

2016-09-13 Thread Paul Eggert
I ran into this problem when building the Autoconf manual using Texinfo 6.3 on Fedora 24, which has Perl 5.22.2. With the attached file (which is a stripped-down version of the manual), the command 'makeinfo autoconf.texi' complains: Negative repeat count does nothing at /home/eggert/opt/Li

Re: [bug-gawk] 'make -C doc/ pdf' [Makefile:457: recipe for target gawk.pdf failed]

2016-09-13 Thread arnold
"David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]" wrote: > I guess I didn't make myself clear. By default the vanilla source code is > used during build inside mock, no modifications to it are currently there. > So, when I try the build for 4.1.4, it uses the texinfo.tex shipped with > gawk. There shouldn't be any way fo

Re: [bug-gawk] 'make -C doc/ pdf' [Makefile:457: recipe for target gawk.pdf failed]

2016-09-13 Thread David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 4:22 PM, wrote: > Hi David. > > You need to figure out how to get mock to use the texinfo.tex shipped > with gawk. Mock is stil using an older version. I support building the doc > with what I ship. But not otherwise. ​I guess I didn't make myself clear. By default the

Re: [bug-gawk] 'make -C doc/ pdf' [Makefile:457: recipe for target gawk.pdf failed]

2016-09-13 Thread arnold
Hi David. You need to figure out how to get mock to use the texinfo.tex shipped with gawk. Mock is stil using an older version. I support building the doc with what I ship. But not otherwise. It may be that you need to move to Texinfo 6.1 (or even the just released Texinfo 6.3) for the latest Fe

Re: [bug-gawk] 'make -C doc/ pdf' [Makefile:457: recipe for target gawk.pdf failed]

2016-09-13 Thread David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
Hello guys, I was in a hurry yesterday, so I have accidentally sent the wrong log file... :-/ Today, I looked into this more: * I am able to create documentation if I normally use 'make -C doc/ pdf' or 'cd doc && make pdf && cd ..' for gawk-4.1.4 in my Fedora 24. * The problem occurs when I try t