[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#790626: Octave FTBFS With Texinfo 6

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On July 6, 2015 8:08:31 PM EDT, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>On Mon, 06 Jul 2015, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> Thanks.  Would you be able to look at octave 3.8.2 in unstable as
>well?  The 
>> code you fixed in escape-backslash-for-texinfo-in-source isn't in
>3.8.2, but it 
>> appears to have similar problems elsewhere.
>
>Have you tried fixing the Makefile.am fragment as in the debdiff
>I sent you? The outdated texinfo.tex is the problem.
>
>I am trying a build now with the Makefile.am in doc/interp fixed up.

I did try that and it changed the error, but it seems there's something else as well.

Thanks,

Scott K