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On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 01:32:44PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> Ok. After all of the discussion with no clear steps taken, I've built a >> version of texinfo-4.0 myself. I've been talking to Eli Zaretskii about >> the DJGPP version of texinfo which supposedly has no problems with this >> binmode/textmode stuff. >> >> The version that I've built seems to correctly handle info files with >> both \r\n and \n line endings so I'm not sure why any patches are needed >> for this. > >makeinfo is broken. e.g. in the bzip2 source or in the cvs source, >running: > >makeinfo manual.texi (in bzip2-1.0.1/) says > manual.texi: bad address > >makeinfo cvs.texinfo (in cvs=1.10.0/doc) says > cvs.texinfo: bad address > >Both work fine with the makeinfo from the 'old' distribution. Ah yes. I forgot about this old problem. Thanks for testing this. I have put up a new version of texinfo on sourceware which has a patch to work around this problem. I've also modified cygwin so that the "bad address" stuff should no longer occur. I haven't played with makeinfo in a variety of text mode and binary mount conditions. Can somebody try this? cgf
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