[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #9303] __makeinfo__ keeps temp file when makeinfo printed to stderr

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?9303>

                 Summary: __makeinfo__ keeps temp file when makeinfo printed
to stderr
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: juanpi
            Submitted on: Mon 27 Mar 2017 07:14:07 PM UTC
                Category: Core : new feature
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Hi all,

It has been always quite difficult to track back errors on the texinfo block,
therefore I have created this patch to prevent
__makeinfo__.m to delete the file if makeinfo printed to stderr (e.g. where
'misplaced }' is printed)

This allows us to go and look into the temp fiel to find the culprit of the
problem. A better solution wouldbe to print the function name, but
__makeinfo__ doesn't know that directly, and parsing the texinfo text itself
seemed like too much work for a simple thing.

Hope you find it useful.




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Date: Mon 27 Mar 2017 07:14:07 PM UTC  Name: makeinfo_keep_tmp_file.cset 
Size: 1kB   By: juanpi

<http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=40172>

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