Permission denied with makeinfo from texinfo-4.0
J. David Bryan
dbryan@bcpl.net
Tue Mar 14 21:56:00 GMT 2000
On 15 Mar 2000, at 0:46, Chris Faylor wrote:
> I don't know why reading the file a character at a time would do anything
> but slow down texinfo.
Exactly so. I have no idea why the authors of makeinfo thought this was
necessary under Win32, and it seems to work just fine without it. I have
mentioned this in the bug report.
> > * It does not use $HOME as a search path for texinfo files.
>
> Why is this desirable?
Whether it's desirable or not is irrelevant. I simply said that *if*
someone wanted to work around this "permission denied" without mucking
around in the makeinfo source, one could do so with -DWIN32 at the expense
of the two items I mentioned.
> So this was just a problem with \r\n in a texinfo file?
Not at all. You may have noted from my first post that the problem is the
specification of an *invalid buffer* in the call to "read." It has
absolutely nothing to do with line ends.
-- Dave Bryan
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