Re: Gnus 5.8.7 fails to generate dvi from gnus.texi
>>>> "ZSH" == ShengHuo ZHU
<zsh(a)cs.rochester.edu> writes:
ZSH> Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com> writes:
ZSH> [...]
> The same problem occures with texinfo-4.0, so it's probably
worth
> reporting this to "The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys":
>
> cd c:\XEmacs\xemacs-packages\man\gnus\
> d:\tmp\texinfo-4.0\makeinfo\makeinfo.exe --iftex gnus.texi
> Compilation started at Tue Jul 11 15:28:02 2000 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time)
> gnus.texi:17: Unknown command `iflatex'.
> gnus.texi:18: Misplaced {.
> gnus.texi:18: Misplaced }.
> <95 lines deleted by Adrian>
> gnus.texi:44: Misplaced {.
> gnus.texi:44: Misplaced }.
> Too many errors! Gave up.
ZSH> In the Makefile, the text between ＠iflatex and ＠end iflatex are
ZSH> trimmed.
Yep, sorry, I should have checked the gnus/texi/nMakefile first.
I will send a patch for gnus/texi/xemacs.mak when I get a round to it.
Adrian
ZSH> .texi.dvi :
ZSH> $(PERL) -n -e 'print unless (/\＠iflatex/ .. /\＠end iflatex/)'
$< > gnust
ZSH> $(TEXI2DVI) gnustmp.texi
ZSH> cp gnustmp.dvi $*.dvi
ZSH> rm gnustmp.*
ZSH> ShengHuo