Re: [PATCH] scripts: add support for building manuals

[Michael Hope <michael dot hope at linaro dot org>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Yann E. MORIN
<yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
> Michael, All,
>
> On Thursday 17 November 2011 00:29:37 Michael Hope wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Yann E. MORIN
>> <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
>> > On my machine (Debian squeeze, amd64), the build freezes after some errors:
> [--SNIP--]
>> Out of interest, what is your pkgversion? ?And does it have an @ in it?
>
> Yes, it does.
>
>> @ is the texinfo command character and can wreck havoc if it's not escaped.
>
> Ah, this explains it, then.

It's a tricky one to fix.  I sent a fix to EGLIBC a month ago, but
then found the same problem exists in binutils, gcc, and gdb and
pretty much anything else sourceware based. See:
 http://www.eglibc.org/archives/patches/msg01014.html

A work-around is to change the development hg pkgversion format to
something without an @.  I quite like the Debian style:
1.1.13+hg12345.

-- Michael

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