Problem with building PDFs

[Jeff Johnston]

Looking briefly at swscanf.c, can the o+ and o- not be changed to O+ and 
O- respectively as is done further on in the RETURNS section?  I imagine 
you didn't see an error there or would have changed them as well.

-- Jeff J.

On 04/28/2013 01:06 PM, Freddie Chopin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> A small info for future generations (and myself if I forget). The
> problem I had is found in 5 places where exactly this sequence is present:
>
>> o-
>>
>> RETURNS
>
> (there may be multiple blank lines between "o-" and "RETURNS")
>
> I don't know what the right solution is, but I found that putting a dot
> in between these two solves the issue for me, so sth like this works:
>
>> o-
>> .
>> RETURNS
>
> The dot is not visible in the PDF file (it's not there), so it changes
> nothing.
>
> I believe that this may have sth to do with texinfo 5 - to do my tests I
> had to do "make info pdf" and it fails (with multiple errors), but
> eventually it creates .def files needed for make pdf. Many projects
> (gcc, binutils) had many problems with recent upgrade to texinfo 5...
> Actually there's one thing I had to fix in newlib for the rest of
> process to work - I'll send that in another message.
>
> I attach a patch with the "fixes", but it's just for reference - I don't
> think it's the right solution.
>
> 4\/3!!