Re: Indices in octave.pdf fail? gnulib subrepo again

[Kai Torben Ohlhus]

On 1/22/20 5:51 AM, Rik wrote:
>
> If I go to the page for the Concept Index or Function Index or ...
> I find just this bit of text
>
> (Skipped sorted index file in obsolete format)

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 3:02 PM Mike Miller wrote:
>
>     But I am also building with an external Gnulib git clone. Can you try
>     building with
>
>         ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=/path/to/other/gnulib
>
>     I'll try again with a copy of gnulib from hg.octave.org
>     <http://hg.octave.org>.
>

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 14:49:32 -0500, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>
> I upgraded texinfo from 6.6 to 6.7 and now all is fine.


I am working with texinfo 6.5 and did not see this issue yet.  Maybe a
bug in texinfo 6.6?


On 1/22/20 5:51 AM, Rik wrote:
>
> Do we need to back this changeset out?
> Should we update gnulib again in case they have fixed whatever
> interaction there is with Texinfo?

As far as I know the gnulib mercurial clone of Octave

   https://hg.octave.org/gnulib

has never really been updated yet, due to a difficult update procedure
and only jwe might have push rights for Octave's gnulib hg subrepo.  It
is still at "c34f677e6117" (17 Mar 2019).


https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2019-12/msg00037.html

The bigger decision was discussed at bug

   https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57044

before last Christmas to finally get rid of this maintenance "monster"
Octave's gnulib hg subrepo.  Any objections against doing this change soon?

Kai