Gnus 5.8.7 fails to generate dvi from gnus.texi
>>>> "Nick" == Nick V Pakoulin
<npak(a)ispras.ru> writes:
Nick> Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.de> writes:
> I've uploaded a test package of Gnus 5.8.7 to
> ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/incoming.
>
> The package had no testing at all, use it at your own risk and send me
> all problems.
>
Nick> I _failed_ to generate a dvi file from gnus.texi. The
Nick> output of texi2dvi is:
Nick> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
Nick> (/tmp/t2d14977/src/gnus.texi (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Nick> Loading texinfo [version 1999-04-25.15]: Basics, pdf, fonts, page headings,
Nick> tables, conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns,
macros,
Nick> cross references, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/plain/dvips/epsf.tex) localization,
Nick> and turning on texinfo input format.)
Nick> ! Undefined control sequence.
Nick> l.17 ＠iflatex
Nick> The version of texi2dvi is:
Nick> texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 3.12-pretest) 0.39
Nick> makeinfo --iftex gnus.texi
Nick> gnus.texi:17: Unknown command `iflatex'.
Nick> I have grepped all texi files in xemacs-packages/man and the
Nick> only file with ＠iflatex is gnus/gnus.texi
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.
Compilation exited abnormally with code 1 at Tue Jul 11 15:28:12
Adrian
> Thanks for testing,
> Andreas
Nick> Nick.